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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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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

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

Fitting the screen size

If you keep experimenting with your application at runtime, you may notice that the editor component doesn't fit the whole application area once you start resizing the window or maximizing it. To address this, we need to add some CSS styles to tell the component it needs to fit the parent width and height.

Please note that, at the lower level, SimpleMDE wraps another great component called CodeMirror.

CodeMirror is a versatile text editor that's implemented in JavaScript for the browser. It is specialized for editing code and comes with a number of language modes and addons that implement more advanced editing functionality.

Here, we are going to add flex layout features to the whole body of the HTML base and add some styling support for the CodeMirror part, which is part of SimpleMDE. Let's get started:

  1. Update the styles in the index.html...
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