Cross-Platform Desktop Apps with Electron

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Electron packages Node + Chromium bundled so desktop apps run on a predictable V8 and Chromium target (Node 8.9 / Chromium 61 for Electron 2.0), letting developers reuse HTML/CSS/JS and NPM modules while avoiding cross‑browser issues. Architecture splits a main process and renderer processes with IPC between main and renderer and a sandboxed webFrame for untrusted content. Tooling includes electron-packager / electron-builder, electron-reload, devtron, spectron and auto‑update support; examples include Atom, Slack, VS Code, Postman, GitHub Desktop and a two‑week GIF utility built with Electron.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 8:07Electron Features
3. 10:23Why Desktop Apps?
4. 27:03Process modules
5. 29:37Render modules
6. 32:39Deploying Electron
7. 34:41Recommended Tools
8. 39:23electron-prebuilt-compile
9. 42:15Tips
10. 44:32Local Storage
11. 47:14Relational DB Storage

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