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Electron Dev Learning

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Official documentation

https://www.electronjs.org/docs/latest/tutorial/quick-start

List of open source projects

https://github.com/topics/electron

New project start

yaml
mkdir my-electron-app && cd my-electron-app
npm init
  • entry point should be main.js.

Install the library

yaml
npm install --save-dev electron

Added startup commands

yaml
{
  "scripts": {
    "start": "electron ."
  }
}

Create a new main.js

yaml
const { app, BrowserWindow } = require("electron");const createWindow = () => {
  const win = new BrowserWindow({
    width: 800,
    height: 600,
  });

win.loadFile("index.html");
};
app.whenReady().then(() => {
  createWindow();
});
app.on("window-all-closed", () => {
  if (process.platform !== "darwin") app.quit();
});

Create a new index.html

yaml
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
  <head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8" />
    <!-- https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/CSP -->
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Security-Policy" content="default-src 'self'; script-src 'self'" />
    <title>Hello World!</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <h1>Hello World!</h1>
    We are using Node.js <span id="node-version"></span>, Chromium <span id="chrome-version"></span>, and Electron
    <span id="electron-version"></span>.
  </body>
</html>

initiate

yaml
npm run start

Publish

Install dependencies

ts
npm install --save-dev @electron-forge/cli
npx electron-forge import```

pack

```ts
npm run make

The finished package is in the out/ directory

Some knowledge points

httponly for cookies

'httponly' and 'js' in the web code. 'xss', 'document.cookie' is not available for 'httponly'. However, the server side is available as usual.

https://newsn.net/say/cookie-httponly.html

Content Security Policy (CSP)

https://www.electronjs.org/docs/latest/tutorial/security#7-define-a-content-security-policy

MIT