Part 2. Building cross-platform applications with Electron

In part 1, I talked a bit about what makes Electron interesting and special, but our first run at building an Electron application was deliberately simple and—I’ll admit—a bit uninspired. In part 2—which takes up the lion’s share of this book—we’ll start digging into Electron’s more compelling abilities. In this section, we’ll build three applications: a Markdown text editor with a live preview and direct access to the filesystem, a clippings manager that lives in your operating system’s menu bar or system tray and can read and write to the system clipboard, and a travel packing list built with React that can read and write directly to a native database.

In part 2, I try to walk a fine line by having you build applications that are simple enough that you can understand them in short order while also having just enough complexity that we’ll run into some of the problems waiting for us in larger, more complex applications.