SQLite is a good option for a local database that you can ship with your application. It won’t require the user to setup or install any extra dependencies. It’s certainly not as full featured as a full on server, but it should be good enough for a local desktop app.
Here is a reference to your comment about the webContents process in the API, in the “Note:” under remotes. However, if you just want to trigger a function, you could also use the webContents.send() and ipc(main process) processes to trigger the appropriate code to run. Something like this… // JavaScript inside the main process const … Read more
Electron include chrome engine to render web pages as Native apps with support for different plugins to add desktop apps features. Electrino doesn’t include any render engine it uses the Safari engine on the Mac so the installation file is smaller than Electron. There’s no support for Windows yet. React Native is using a cross-platform … Read more
Photon is a recent project but it is probably what you want. For the moment the UI is only like OSX. UI toolkit for building desktop apps with Electron. Link: http://photonkit.com/
Here’s what worked for me on Mac. In terminal type lldb path/to/build.app In the opened debugger type run –remote-debugging-port=8315. It should open a window of your app. Open Chrome at http://localhost:8315/ Click on the name of the app. For example, Webpack App. If you don’t see anything in the opened tab, focus on the window … Read more
Performance-wise: Is a WPF application better than an Electron one coded wisely? [closed]
You can simply use : require(“shell”).openExternal(“http://www.google.com”)
firstly, add react-router as a dependency yarn add react-router or npm install react-router Then (for react-router v5) import { useHistory } from ‘react-router’ const history = useHistory() // then add this to the function that is called for re-rendering history.go(0) This causes your page to re-render automatically For react-router v6 use the useNavigate hook instead: … Read more
You can reduce the electron app size by packaging using electron-builder package. PicArt is an electronjs app which I developed recently. It is built using reactJS. Initially when I packaged the app using electron-packager the Window’s build size was around 98 MB. Then I found this awesome boilerplate electron-react where they configured the electron-builder to … Read more
The main/renderer process distinction isn’t actually an Electron concept per se — it’s inherited from Chromium (here’s an article on Chromium’s architecture and the reasoning behind it). This is the architecture that Chrome uses for performance and stability reasons. Each webContents instance runs in it’s own process (a “renderer” process). The main process (there can … Read more