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Electron Projects

You're reading from   Electron Projects Build over 9 cross-platform desktop applications from scratch

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838552206
Length 436 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Denys Vuika Denys Vuika
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Philipp Langhans Philipp Langhans
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Preface 1. Building Your First Electron Application FREE CHAPTER 2. Building a Markdown Editor 3. Integrating with Angular, React, and Vue 4. Building a Screenshot Snipping Tool 5. Making a 2D Game 6. Building a Music Player 7. Analytics, Bug Tracking, and Licensing 8. Building a Group Chat Application with Firebase 9. Building an eBook Editor and Generator 10. Building a Digital Wallet for Desktops 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Using Nucleus for Electron applications

Nucleus is an analytics platform for Electron applications. You can use it to install an extra library and emit tracking events from your application code. Nucleus aggregates information from all the client instances, processes the data, and stores it in its own servers. By doing this, you can access reports, view statistics, and even send notifications to the running clients, as shown in the following screenshot:

There is a set of browser characteristics that an application can collect and send to the analytics services. It can also be based on the information that doesn't identify a person, but this still helps us to improve our projects. According to the official documentation, the service collects the following information from each client:

  • Time of the requests
  • The hashed identifier of the machine (cannot be used to identify the...
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