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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

Supporting offline mode

By default, the Nucleus library expects your users to have an internet connection to send tracking events. However, you may be wondering what happens if users run your application when they're offline, for example, during a flight or when they're on the tube.

The good news is that you can turn on offline support for Nucleus-enabled Electron applications. This allows us to store the application events locally, cached to disk, and send them to the analytics server once the application is back online.

Use the persist property to enable or disable caching for events:

const Nucleus = require("electron-nucleus")("<App Id>", {
persist: true
});

As you can see, enabling offline mode support for your application's analytics is not difficult with the Nucleus library.

Next, let's learn how to handle application updates...

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