Create a Desktop App With JavaScript & Electron

In this video, we will create a cross-platform desktop app to resize image dimensions, using JavaScript and Electron.
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Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
3:05 - Resources
4:48 - Setup & Install Dependencies
8:08 - Create Main Window
12:45 - Common Boilerplate
15:53 - Show Devtools
18:10 - Using Electronmon
18:54 - Adding the UI Theme
21:26 - Content Security Policy
23:00 - Menu Customization
27:36 - Menu Roles
30:00 - About Window
31:53 - Start Renderer JS / Load Image
38:15 - Get Original Dimensions
39:40 - Using Preload
44:28 - Show Output Path
46:43 - Toastify Alerts
50:58 - Form Submit Handler
53:54 - IPC Renderer (Send)
56:44 - IPC Main (Recieve)
59:35 - Resize Image
1:05:32 - Catch Message In Renderer
1:07:32 - Make mainWindow Global
1:10:22 - Test Production Mode

[@georgebatsiashvili4160]

Was 2017 when i first started learning programming and this channel was first in my list. After 5 years in my career as senior dev still coming back to this to learn new stuff. thank u so much ^^

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[@jfimedia2638]

a familiar situation :)

[@Alien-cr1zb]

Any advice second year cs and i feel lost

[@zachjensz]

Finally I can use all my RAM

[@akshaypendyala]

😂

[@alirmaity1570]

Hahahahahaha

[@web3media843]

nice one hhhh

[@andriyabu]

Cool 😎 just watch if any smoke coming ou

[@agussatria7138]

hhahaha, all tools that are forced to cross platform always end up badly in terms of memory resources. I used to try cordova just made a simple to-do-list app, I ran it on my phone and my phone got hot in just 5 minutes lol

[@davidemiozzi8589]

spent a whole day trying to get things going, came here, and now everything is illuminated. Hands down the best programming tutorials around!

[@kerrykreiter445]

One of if not the best Electron videos on KZbin. Nice job Brad!

[@alexpiano]

Thanks for this one, I have never tried electronjs, it was something I was kinda avoiding but I find it super interesting. And also it refreshes a lot the knowledge of node usage. Don't hesitate to make more ;) All the best from Barcelona

[@nanohedron]

Thanks Brad. I don't think I'll ever be able to repay you for all the great training.

[@amhas_tech]

The best Electron tutorial on youtube 🙌🙌

[@amirnoorani5017]

This week I was working on Electron and suddenly I saw your video notification on my phone. As always thank you Traversy

[@qwerty74]

Absolutely perfect timing. I wanted to do something very close to this.

[@kaxabekov1627]

Best tutor for programming on KZbin!!!

[@TheMvarnell]

Excellent work explaining this. I got a lot out of seeing how it all worked, and coding along. Really appreciate the time you took to make it!

[@savimcgee7443]

Always excellent.

[@reidainutilidade8743]

Thank you for this video. I watch from begin to end, and I was not have any problem during development.

[@thiagot7706]

I learned so much! Thank you

[@mmvarma.p]

Dude, I am literally checking for latest Electron tutorial. Many people comment about this, but never thought it will happen to me. Anyway thanks buddy.

[@destinlee]

Good times. Thanks as always Brad. Much love ☮

[@rommelpetilo]

thank you Brad for this updated tutorial on electron!

[@jesterlw]

Awesome tutorial thank you very much

[@PROTOTYPZ]

Thank you very much for a clear tutorial. I was pulling my hairs out looking for a solid tutorial.

[@iamcasted]

this is really what i was searching information for atleast a month now, thank you

[@Gigusx]

Electron? Remember that Brad has a full course on the topic. Another amazing instructor that made a course on Electron is Stephen Grider!

[@iamcasted]

@@Gigusx Thank you🥺

[@sahilverma_dev]

I was planning to learn electorn and then you dropped this video. Thanks man

[@natreextv8516]

Thanks A LOT! Very helpfull video!

[@paulthomas1052]

Great session, Very useful and informative at a great pace. Thanks.

[@user-vk8kt3tp1g]

Helpline📲 Questions can come in⬆️

[@sumitsarkarbusiness]

This is the best tutorial I could find ... thank you :-)

[@itamarribeiro8865]

I will save it on my list so I can follow it later, Tks Brad

[@MedyZeus]

Never regret the day I subscribed to your channel dude.. thanks for the video

[@spacexnix]

It's amazing. Thank you for a good experience for a newbie

[@Flamewheel2001]

I just finished your react udemy course and then i was researching a a problem i wanted to solve and this youtube video was exactly concept i was looking for

[@dryoldcrabman6890]

This was super useful! Thank you so much! What would be super helpful is showing how to set up a webpack in the renderer. And show how to set up a framework in the rednerer.

[@bennyakaz]

Ive been waiting for this. THANKS BRO

[@user-vk8kt3tp1g]

Helpline📲 Questions can come in⬆️

[@subiebugeye02]

@traversymedia Brad, I’ve lurked on KZbin and other sites for a while as I am trying to learn JavaScript for a upcoming Bootcamp and I’ve been stressing because I keep getting stuck in trying one resource and moving to the next as it feels too slow. I watched some of your JavaScript KZbin videos and am completely impressed with how you structure the learning topic and your tone that you teach in. You make beginners feel welcomed and hopeful. I just purchased two of your courses on Udemy and want to thank you for the top tier content and hope you are getting enough support to continue producing such high quality material. Please, if you don’t do it already, start a podcast man. I, among many others, would love to dive into that content with you. Cheers my friend!

[@idkcoder]

Bobo just use Udemy

[@subiebugeye02]

@@idkcoder what?

[@Oliver_twist00]

@@subiebugeye02 if you want to program web apps learn c+ javascript is mainely for web apps and web pages, this stuff is really for advanced users in javascript to be able to code desktop apps without learning new languages

[@bobmonsour]

I went through this slowly and carefully...took several hours so that I could digest things...especially the ipc stuff. It makes a lot more sense now. I do hope you'll update your udemy course on this some day. That said, I know enough to be dangerous now and I really like what can be done with Electron. Thanks!

[@sixtusushahemba9419]

Thanks for the course, it's very informative and helpful.

[@user-vk8kt3tp1g]

Helpline📲 Questions can come in⬆️

[@LarryMarkel]

Great video. Taught me a lot. Felt like Bill Burr was teaching me with your accent!

[@learninternetwithkelly8338]

He is here again. Thanks Brad!

[@dr.margulis7773]

Awesome, Brad! 👏👏👏👍

[@mrbuslov]

Extremely awesome video, it's better, than docs. Thanks!

[@haythamaldamen3578]

Thank you for your work did you consider Neutralinojs as much smaller and much faster than electron because it uses chrome library

[@rockNbrain]

Great job dude !

[@erasmusmensah]

This content should be made a playlist

[@charbelsarkis3567]

Something I've been waiting for. There were so many updates to electron

[@user-vk8kt3tp1g]

Helpline📲 Questions can come in⬆️

[@aogunnaike]

Thanks for this 😌

[@rpaengineer5114]

Great tuto Mr brad 🔥🔥 Hope to make project based on TAURI framework 🙏🙏🙏

[@muadzrosli]

Hi Brad. I was wondering, how do you get the css file used in this electron app? Since it is Tailwind css, did you design elsewhere and treeshaking the classes first or that is full css in Tailwind?

[@yanaytsabary8297]

Love your videos and thanks for sharing your knowledge. Will your updated Udemy course include working with React? I find that there's a big gap there as someone who's coming from React and trying to figure out how to use that With Electron. Also, when is it due to be updated?

[@repotranstech9614]

Cool project,we also need an update on progressive web application.Its good for cross platform.

[@janzenfaidiban]

Thank you Brad...

[@flave11]

Thank you for this video toaay

[@javascriptes]

Another classic, I also want to say that there is nothing like development with bare js and nodejs :)

[@pupfriend]

like raw-dogging in a whorehouse.

[@abhishekpratap8784]

Today i made a screen recorder using electron, I wish this video would have come a few days earlier. Would have saved a lot of time.

[@overboostoverboost2541]

May I ask you to share the code with me for education purposes? Just curious :)

[@abhishekpratap8784]

@@overboostoverboost2541 i tried sending 7 msgs and all got deleted

[@raqibahmad]

can we put an entire react js app inside the rendered folder to make it work on the electron platform ?

[@somethingcoolgoeshere]

Super cool video! Trying to learn how electron works so I can make my own Music player app

[@darshanpagar1894]

I am planning to make my own video player. Can you drop your github link

[@christian-schubert]

REALLY interesting video, thanks for that Brad! Don't know what I would give for a course on a Vanilla HTML/Javascript/CSS to Native Mobile App conversion [maybe using Cordova?]. The discontinuation of PhoneGap has left a huge gap in that respect (yes, I am WELL aware of its drawbacks, but I'm obviously NOT talking about creating one million plus downloads gaming apps here)

[@erasmusmensah]

Try PWA

[@christian-schubert]

@@erasmusmensah Wish it were that simple. Most of the time, it's really a matter of prestige - there are clients out there who INSIST on a native app where a PWA would totally suffice

[@collinsk8754]

Excellent! 👍👍

[@antoniusaguswijaya9341]

man. Thank you!

[@ibrahimsfofanah6215]

Thank you 🙏

[@SandeepSingh-ye5fh]

Thanks Brad

[@clippingasmr]

I love this guy fr

[@MRAMetharam]

Another great video! Thanx!!! For those interested, to get rid of the menu on the About window... abountWin.setMenu(null);

[@indianolaguitarman]

What steps must developers creating desktop apps with Electron use to make those accessible to screen reader software that blind folks use? Came across something recently to configure a device for recording wildlife and if it was a web page, could benefit from labels for text edit fields, radio buttons and checkboxes. But with electron, what is the best practice so that the app is then screen reader accessible?

[@jagadeeshkj5561]

Cool background.

[@danielvega646]

How is your VS code theme called? Looks neato! And thanks a lot for the tutorial, helped me a lot to become familiar with Electron development.

[@chetanjain4616]

Great course as always Brad... But personally I am waiting for Tauri Crash Course, they have an amazing framework and I really want to give it a try

[@AbhishekBM]

Check other channels. Brad is a web developer. It's unlikely he'll do a tutorial on a rust based framework

[@chetanjain4616]

@@AbhishekBM Why not? He has done a tutorial on Rust and this is a tutorial on desktop application... I guess it depends on him but it wouldn't be new to his ecosystem

[@mykus1000]

me too

[@shomriddhosworld5587]

yes yes yes yes yes yes! finally

[@riteshbathwal2118]

I have an electron App with UI built using react and a browserView loading a webpage. Now I want to make async communication from UI renderer process to webpage renderer process. Is it possible ? Even if I use ipcMain to handle ipcRenderer.invoke request from UI, I dont know how to send async request from main process to my browserView process, so that when it returns a response, I can then return response from main process to UI renderer process. Any help here would be appreciated much.

[@johnsunday3548]

Great stuff mentor...pls do same with react js if possible with a DB...thnks...

[@Hub632]

I don't understand why. But around 59:35, the line "const resizeImg=require("resize-img")" removes the inspector window from the app. NAd I am not able to get it back.

[@wadhajable]

Thanks sir In this app Can I use RPC (remote procedure call) as in web apps

[@glatocha]

ahh, so much needed as those security changes in electron made many many tutorials not suitable

[@user-vk8kt3tp1g]

Helpline📲 Questions can come in⬆️

[@Arabian_Epileptic]

Html/css/js can be used now to build pretty much any software, server side, front end, even mobile apps and of course desktop apps with electron. No other stack can compete hence why JS is the #1 programming language :)

[@emreaka3965]

you can do that with c# which is faster and obviously a better choice to develop such applications except for web applications.Right now, You can develop cross-platform (web, macOS, windows, ios, android...) applications with html, css, c#. 😉

[@nonametrackz7887]

@@emreaka3965 with electron or do i need to use webview?

[@muhammadidrees6650]

We need one project with Advance Angular please 😊, stay blessed Brad 🎉

[@etanheyman5009]

Hey I just started working on a react electron app with typescript, but I'm having difficulty finding a guide/way to do it properly, would you be able to show a way for that? tried using a boilerplate but having problems connecting to the nodejs server.

[@poetslayer]

Thx a lot

[@kennedychidi7012]

I'm done just watching, is time I follow up and start building... I'll be back to testify.

[@SodiqOlaniyi]

I was thinking of searching this then this video popped up 🤣

[@burd1129]

Great Video!

[@ankitabannore8014]

Thanks for this one! I am creating one desktop application using electron now I want to connect it to the database. Can you tell me anything that I need to do?

[@Rlifshitz19]

Can you do a video on building a KZbin to MP3 Converter? All the ones online are sketchy. It would be awesome if we could build our own. Love the video!

[@selfmaster1123]

that would be amazing and helpful tool

[@user-te2pe5qm8o]

thank you

[@zulfikarbandhan2783]

Could you please make a video on "Create a Desktop App with JavaScript & Tauri"? Thanks Brad for all the good works.

[@manukyanq]

to the top!

[@Imaginativeone_DF]

When will the course-update be available?

[@mamupelu565]

Is it still worth it learning angular now? I want to get in the IT market asap, Ive been 3 years as a trainee but doing support stuff

[@abhisekdas9976]

Please make a video on Tauri App which is an electron replacer.

[@BukkyOdunsi]

KZbin needs to add a feature to clip favorite channels and videos

[@kerem666]

[@thongnguyen5024]

Your index.html (on GitHub) is missing closing tag of button div (line 57).

[@strapedd]

Ive never seen the guy smile😂

[@justfun591]

Electron JS uses chromium to render HTML CSS JavaScript so even if you only have a simple h1 tag it will be more than 100MB in size

[@imbayi]

How is this an issue in 2022? Developers like making a mountain out of a molehill. Today average computer users are just doing fine with PCs and Macs with 256GB of storage. We are no longer storing photos, music and movie files on our computers to worry so much about storage. This is the same argument most developers make against certain technologies arguing that technology X cannot support millions of users yet in the entire life they'll never build a product or service for millions of users. Every dev out there argues as if he is building the next Facebook.

[@justfun591]

@@imbayi Sir.... but if I just want a simple image resizer, for this, I am asked to download 100MBs software then I would definitely think that there should be some malware/spyware/resource consumer program also running with that software

[@sesu6743]

Where can i get the electron course?

[@sourabhshukla8625]

I was looking for tauri tutorial

[@ArmandoBN497]

i need help understading how to package it on a mac, i was able to build the relase folder and dmg file after it but im lost after that on how to get the app actuly installed on my laptop

[@CyrianOz]

Hello Brad, please could you help me with this error "(node:48019) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: ReferenceError: Path is not defined at createMainWindow (/Users/cyprian/Desktop/image-resizer-electron/main.js:21:22) at /Users/cyprian/Desktop/image-resizer-electron/main.js:46:5"

[@manukyanq]

Please make video about Tauri framework

[@anserwaseem3362]

How to use SQL with electron? I'm trying to connect Sqlite but alas! Please shed some light on it

[@BSenta]

It doesn't make sense to worry about memory leaks when your application closes. Even in C++ if you have forgot to free stuff in the heap when the whole application ends all of the memory will be claimed back by the OS. It doesn't make sense to set that window to null when your closing your app. Unless electron apps don't 'close' and just run in the background like chrome does even when you close all the windows - which would be stupid if it did this

[@SlipperyBrick89]

I never thought that Mark Wahlberg would be teaching me Electron

[@Akash-xv5sk]

How to logout a user when i click window close button?

[@maacpiash]

Can you make a crash course on Solid.js please?

[@AGUNGKAYA]

Amazing 🎉 ANyway, would you mind making Crash Course on Codenameone ? Java framework on mobile dev. Thank you in advance Sir

[@musshare]

Cool