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Practical Internet of Things with JavaScript

You're reading from   Practical Internet of Things with JavaScript Build standalone exciting IoT projects with Raspberry Pi 3 and JavaScript (ES5/ES6)

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788292948
Length 296 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Arvind Ravulavaru Arvind Ravulavaru
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Building the desktop app and implementing an end-to-end flow

Now that we are done with an end-to-end flow with the web app, we will extend the same to the desktop and mobile apps. We will start off by building a desktop client for the same API engine. So, if a user is more comfortable in using a desktop app over a web or mobile app, he/she could use this.

This desktop app, we will have all the same features as the web app.

For building the desktop app, we will use the electron (https://electron.atom.io/) framework. Using a Yeoman (http://yeoman.io/) generator named generator-electron (https://github.com/sindresorhus/generator-electron), we will scaffold the base application. Then, we will build our web app and use the dist folder from that build as an input to the desktop app. All this will be more clear once we start working.

To get started, run the following command:

npm install...
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