Electron in Action

Chapter 2. Your first Electron application

This chapter covers

• Structuring and setting up an Electron application
• Generating a package.json, and configuring it to work with Electron in development
• Including a prebuilt version of Electron for your platform in your project
• Configuring your package.json to start up your main process
• Creating renderer processes from your main process
• Taking advantage of Electron’s relaxed sandboxing restrictions to build functionality that normally would not be possible inside of the browser
• Using Electron’s built-in modules to side-step some common issues

In chapter 1, we discussed what Electron is at a high level. That said, this book is called Electron in Action, right? In this chapter, we learn the ropes ...