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Electron Projects

You're reading from   Electron Projects Build over 9 cross-platform desktop applications from scratch

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838552206
Length 436 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Denys Vuika Denys Vuika
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Philipp Langhans Philipp Langhans
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Preface 1. Building Your First Electron Application 2. Building a Markdown Editor FREE CHAPTER 3. Integrating with Angular, React, and Vue 4. Building a Screenshot Snipping Tool 5. Making a 2D Game 6. Building a Music Player 7. Analytics, Bug Tracking, and Licensing 8. Building a Group Chat Application with Firebase 9. Building an eBook Editor and Generator 10. Building a Digital Wallet for Desktops 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Integrating the application menu

As you already know, your application is essentially an HTML5 stack running inside Chromium, and Electron provides all necessary integration with the underlying operating system, whether that's macOS, Windows, or Linux.

The concept of application menus is slightly different across platforms. macOS, for instance, provides a single application menu that reflects the active application and displays the corresponding menu items. The Windows system tends to provide a separate menu for each instance of the application window. Finally, Linux systems usually vary based on the window manager's implementations.

Handling every case would be quite cumbersome for developers; that is why the Electron framework provides a unified interface for building application menus from the JSON definition and takes care of integration details.

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