Electron Apps with Jessica Lord and Evan Morikawa

Description:

Electron is becoming more and more of a relevant and popular way of building multi-platform desktop apps with web technologies. Let's get a dive into this awesome tech and see how we can use it to enhance our own experience and our user's experience on the desktop.

Show sponsors:

• Egghead.io - Bite-sized web development video training
• Frontend Masters - Expert front-end training
• TrackJS - JavaScript Error Monitoring
• SparkPost - Email. We've Got It Down.
• WebStorm - Smart JavaScript IDE
• Trading Technologies - Building For What's Next
• React.js Program - Master the React.js Ecosystem
• Sentry - Cross-platform crash-reporting

Links, Picks, and Tips:

Jessica Lord@jllord

Links

• Electron API Demos
• Electron Apps
• Electron Quick Start App
• Devtron
• Electron Packager

Tips

• Electron Quick Start App
• Make a menubar app
• Check out the nativize.css file in Electron API Demos app
• Electron community tools and meetups

Picks

• Hammock Camping!
• Mojibar

Evan Morikawa@e0m

Links

• Atom
• VSCode

Tips

• Reading Open source

Picks

• Observables
• Atom slack channel
• Moonwalking With Einstein

Tyler McGinnis@tylermcginnis33

Tips

• Find a hobby- Skaters of the web

Picks

• How to learn technical things

Kent C. Dodds@kentcdodds

Links

• My Atom Plugins

Tips

• Teach to Learn. I learned ASTs by preparing and giving this talk. And read this blogpost by Anirudh Modi.

Picks

• Start With Why
• What Code Comments can Teach us About Scaling a Codebase

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