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Create MacOS, Windows and Linux cross-platform applications with Electron packager.

I will use the example from my tutorial. Install electron-packager:

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\nodejs\electronapp>npm install electron-packager --save-dev

You need to add and modify the scripts below into your package.json:

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"electron-packager": "^8.1.0"
},
"scripts": {
"package-mac": "electron-packager . --overwrite --platform=darwin --arch=x64 --icon=assets/icons/mac/icon.icns --prune=true --out=release-builds",
"package-win": "electron-packager . electron-tutorial-app --overwrite --asar=true --platform=win32 --arch=ia32 --icon=assets/icons/win/icon.ico --prune=true --out=release-builds --version-string.CompanyName=CE --version-string.FileDescription=CE --version-string.ProductName=\"TutorialApp\"",    
"package-linux": "electron-packager . electron-tutorial-app --overwrite --asar=true --platform=linux --arch=x64 --icon=assets/icons/png/1024x1024.png --prune=true --out=release-builds"
}

You can create this folders assets, icons, win, mac and png, see:

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\nodejs\electronapp>mkdir assets
\nodejs\electronapp>cd assets
\nodejs\electronapp\assets>mkdir icons
\nodejs\electronapp\assets>cd icons
\nodejs\electronapp\assets\icons>mkdir win
\nodejs\electronapp\assets\icons>mkdir mac
\nodejs\electronapp\assets\icons>mkdir png

You need one icon file with this extension .png , .ico and .icns for each folder. You can… Read More »

Build an Electron App with node.js .

In this tutorial I will show you how to build an application with electron and node.js. Electron is a framework for creating native applications with web technologies like JavaScript, HTML, and CSS and you can build cross-platform desktop applications free. The official website can be found here. Download node.js and install on your operating system.… Read More »

JavaScript – the regular expressions example.

This simple tutorial is about how to parse text file using a regular expression, or called regex or regexp. This text processing is very useful to programmers. The parsing area is fill with the source code numbered as input . Using the javascript function named RemoveFirstLineNumbers will retrieve and process the input text by deleting… Read More »