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Cross-platform Desktop Application Development: Electron, Node, NW.js, and React

You're reading from   Cross-platform Desktop Application Development: Electron, Node, NW.js, and React Build desktop applications with web technologies

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788295697
Length 300 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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 Sheiko Sheiko
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Dedication
Preface
1. Creating a File Explorer with NW.js-Planning, Designing, and Development FREE CHAPTER 2. Creating a File Explorer with NW.js – Enhancement and Delivery 3. Creating a Chat System with Electron and React – Planning, Designing, and Development 4. Creating a Chat System with Electron and React – Enhancement, Testing, and Delivery 5. Creating a Screen Capturer with NW.js, React, and Redux – Planning, Design, and Development 6. Creating a Screen Capturer with NW.js: Enhancement, Tooling, and Testing 7. Creating RSS Aggregator with Electron, TypeScript , React, and Redux: Planning, Design, and Development 8. Creating RSS Aggregator with Electron, TypeScript, React, and Redux: Development

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Unlike in native applications, our source code isn't compiled and is therefore open to everybody. If you have any commercial use of this fact in mind, it is unlikely to suit you. The least you can do is to obfuscate the source code, for example, using Jscrambler (https://jscrambler.com/en/). On the other hand, we can compile our sources into native code and load it with NW.js instead of JavaScript. For that, we need to separate JavaScript from the application bundle. Let's create the app folder and move everything except js there. The js folder will be moved into a newly created directory, src:

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├── app
│   

└── assets
│       └── css
│           ├── Base
│           └── 

Component
└── src
    └── 

js
        ├── Data
        ├── 

Service
        └── View

Our JavaScript modules are now out of the project scope, and we cannot reach them when required. However, these are still Node.js modules (https://nodejs.org/api/modules.html) that confront CommonJS module definition...

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