/tags/javascript/ Recent content in Javascript on Richard Borges Hugo en Tue, 23 Aug 2016 00:00:00 +0000 /post/2016-08-23-taking-electron-for-a-spin/ Tue, 23 Aug 2016 00:00:00 +0000 /post/2016-08-23-taking-electron-for-a-spin/ <p>I&rsquo;ve been listening to podcasts about electron apps at <a href="https://www.dotnetrocks.com/">DotNetRocks</a> (episode 1336 )</p> <p><img alt="DotNetRocks.Electron" loading="lazy" src="../../images/2016/08/DotNetRocks.Electron-1024x66.png" title="DotNetRocks.Electron"> <!-- raw HTML omitted --></p> <p>as well as Scott Hanselmans podcast <a href="http://www.hanselminutes.com/534/creating-cross-platform-electron-apps-with-jessica-lord">Creating cross-platform Electron apps with Jessica Lord</a>.Both are very informative. Jessica also has an interesting blog post at <a href="http://jlord.us/essential-electron/">essential electron</a>. So I picked up a course on Pluralsight by Rob Connery.</p> <p>First impressions : using node server to create a desktop application was quite new to me and I had to get my head around having a node server running locally to serve up content in a chromium browser. All local.</p>