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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

Integrating the editor component

For our project, we don't need to build everything from scratch, including the components that edit and format text in markdown format. There are lots of free, open source components you can use to save time and focus on building the application and delivering value to your users, rather than spending months reinventing the wheel.

For the sake of simplicity, we are going to use the SimpleMDE component, which stands for Simple Markdown Editor. You can find more details about the project on its home page: https://simplemde.com/. The project is open source and has an MIT license. Follow these steps to incorporate the component:

  1. Similarly to how we installed the Electron framework itself, you can use NPM commands to get SimpleMDE into your project:
      npm install simplemde
Don't forget to stop the application before installing a new...
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