Summary

In this chapter, we have successfully created a minimalistic markdown editor. We have walked through the process of integrating third-party editor components, wiring keyboard combinations, and performing messaging between the browser and Node.js parts of the Electron application. You should now have a better understanding of application deployments and automatic updates, as well as simple release management via the GitHub repository.

Then, you learned how to build a basic desktop application with system menu integration and access to the local filesystem. This is essentially the bare bones of a typical Electron project you are going to work on in the future. However, the Electron framework provides you with a wrapper around your web application. You still need to decide whether to use plain JavaScript, HTML, and CSS or employ an existing web framework to move faster. This is something we are going to look at in the next chapter.