Building an Electron Application using Elm

What Will I Learn?

• You will learn what electron is and how you can use it to build cross platform desktop applications
• You will learn how to use Elm or any JavaScript based language to build out Electron applications
• You will learn how to configure and setup an Electron window

Requirements

• A basic working knowledge of HTML and JavaScript
• An understanding of the Node and NPM ecosystem
• Basic knowledge about "compile to JavaScript" languages such as Elm or BuckleScript

Difficulty

• Basic

Description

In this video tutorial, we look at how we can embed an Elm or JavaScript based application into an Electron window. We talk about what Electron is at its core and how it can be used to make cross platform desktop applications. We also look at how we can configure this Electron window using various JavaScript bindings and the Electron Command Line Interface (CLI). This method can also be applied to any other compile to JavaScript language.

The Elm project used in this application is from this tutorial series.

The source code for this project can be found here

Video Tutorial

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