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Deep dive into Electron’s main and renderer processes

In a post on his Medium blog Cameron Nokes explains the two most important processes in any Electron app: the main process and the renderer process.

Central to Electron is the concept of two or more operating system level processes running concurrently — the “main” and “renderer” processes. Dealing with multiple processes is new territory if you’re coming from browser Javascript land. It was definitely a paradigm shift for me initially, and working with multiple processes may mean you make different design choices in your app that you wouldn’t otherwise.

https://medium.com/@ccnokes/deep-dive-into-electrons-main-and-renderer-processes-7a9599d5c9e2

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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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