Posts tagged with application

Building a desktop application with Electron

Electron is a library that enables you to create desktop apps with JavaScript, Html and css. If you're interesting in playing around with this cool technology check out this tutorial by Kristian Poslek.

In this article, I’ll try to guide you through the process of building a simple desktop application and touch on important concepts for building desktop application with JavaScript.

https://medium.com/developers-writing/building-a-desktop-application-with-electron-204203eeb658

Together with Marcel Pociot and the help of Alex Vanderbist I'm currently building my first Electron app. It's a bit too early to share any details about it except that we'll open source it (and it'll be free).

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A step by step guide to building your first Laravel application

Eric L. Barnes, the curator of Laravel News, recently launched his new website called dotdev. It aims to be a resource for developers who want to read quality reviews and tutorials amongst other things.

Although the site in general doesn't focus on Laravel, Eric wrote a good introductory post for people who are new to the framework. Unlike most beginner level articles, it focuses on creating a real world application.

My goal with this is to create a guide for those just learning the framework. It is setup to take you from the very beginning of an idea into a real deployable application. ... I am attempting to go through the process of creating a new application just as I would in a real world environment. In fact, the code and idea is taken from a project that I built.

https://dotdev.co/tutorials/step-by-step-guide-to-building-your-first-laravel-application/

For the first batch of posts on the site I made a playlist for coding late at night. Do you have something to share that would interest the readers of dotdev? Read these guidelines on guest posting first, and thenemail Eric.

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