Category: desktop apps

Tips and Tricks for Debugging Electron Applications

Tips and Tricks for Debugging an Electron Application is an excerpt from Electron in Action, a step-by-step guide to building desktop applications that run on Windows, OSX, and Linux. If you’d like to follow along with the techniques demonstrated in this article, you can use the electron-quick-start demo to creat...

Building a Cross-platform Desktop App with NW.js

NW.js is a framework for creating native applications using web technologies like HTML, JavaScript and CSS. In the simplest case, you’re developing a web application using your normal workflow. At the end of the process, you run a generator that compiles everything to a native application that then just displays ...

Create Cross-Platform Desktop Node Apps with Electron

Call me old-fashioned, but I have always preferred using a desktop app suited to each purpose. I feel that if all I’m going to use is a browser for everything I do, then why have a ‘proper’ computer? On a practical level, I travel frequently and am generally ‘between’ internet connectivity...