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Cross-platform Desktop Application Development: Electron, Node, NW.js, and React

You're reading from   Cross-platform Desktop Application Development: Electron, Node, NW.js, and React Build desktop applications with web technologies

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788295697
Length 300 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Dmitry Sheiko Dmitry Sheiko
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Preface 1. Creating a File Explorer with NW.js-Planning, Designing, and Development FREE CHAPTER 2. Creating a File Explorer with NW.js – Enhancement and Delivery 3. Creating a Chat System with Electron and React – Planning, Designing, and Development 4. Creating a Chat System with Electron and React – Enhancement, Testing, and Delivery 5. Creating a Screen Capturer with NW.js, React, and Redux – Planning, Design, and Development 6. Creating a Screen Capturer with NW.js: Enhancement, Tooling, and Testing 7. Creating RSS Aggregator with Electron, TypeScript , React, and Redux: Planning, Design, and Development 8. Creating RSS Aggregator with Electron, TypeScript, React, and Redux: Development

Creating a Screen Capturer with NW.js, React, and Redux – Planning, Design, and Development

In this chapter, we are starting a new application screen capturer. With this tool, will be able to take screenshots and record screencasts. We will build the application using the React components of the Material UI toolkit, which implements Google's Material Design specification. We already gained some experience with React while working on the chat example. Now, we are taking a step further towards scalable and highly maintainable application development. We are going to have an introduction to one of the hottest libraries of the time that called Redux, which manages the application state.

At the end of the chapter, we will have a prototype, which already responds to user actions, but misses the service to capture display input and save it in a file.

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