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Angular Projects

You're reading from   Angular Projects Build modern web apps by exploring Angular 12 with 10 different projects and cutting-edge technologies

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800205260
Length 344 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Aristeidis Bampakos Aristeidis Bampakos
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Chapter 1: Creating Your First Web Application in Angular 2. Chapter 2: Building an SPA Application with Scully and Angular Router FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: Building an Issue Tracking System using Reactive Forms 4. Chapter 4: Building a PWA Weather Application Using Angular Service Worker 5. Chapter 5: Building a WYSIWYG Editor for the Desktop using Electron 6. Chapter 6: Building a Mobile Photo Geotagging Application Using Capacitor and 3D Maps 7. Chapter 7: Building an SSR Application for a GitHub Portfolio Using Angular 8. Chapter 8: Building an Enterprise Portal Using Nx Monorepo Tools and NgRx 9. Chapter 9: Building a Component UI Library Using Angular CLI and Angular CDK 10. Chapter 10: Customizing Angular CLI Commands Using Schematics 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Communicating between Angular and Electron

According to the specifications of the project, the content of the WYSIWYG editor needs to be persisted in the local filesystem. Additionally, the content will be loaded from the filesystem upon application startup.

The Angular application handles any interaction between the WYSIWYG editor and its data using the renderer process, whereas the Electron application manages the filesystem with the main process. Thus, we need to establish an IPC mechanism to communicate between the two Electron processes as follows:

  • Configuring the Angular CLI workspace
  • Interacting with the editor
  • Interacting with the filesystem

Let's start with the first one, to set up the Angular CLI project for supporting the desired communication mechanism.

Configuring the Angular CLI workspace

We need to modify several files to configure the workspace of our application:

  1. Open the main.ts file that exists in the src\electron folder...
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