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The only downside with having a web engine is that a minimalist application (displaying Hello Word on a page) is very heavy (it can weight up to 40Mb, where it is only one line of code for others language – but it’s fair to notice that Electron Hello World page is a bit more than just a message, as you can change it’s size, select it, open a development console etc… It doesn’t return just a simple string in a popup or console).Īs development set up was very fast to put in place, thanks to the electron-quick-start boilerplate app and documentation, I could start to work in few times on the core of the project: the RPP Parser. Installing these extra packages with NPM is only one single line in a CLI. If you miss some features, maybe someone already made them and share his results thanks to NPM. Coding for Electron is a bit like coding for a website, but you have access to extra functions.
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Some package developers even have free chatrooms to support users in real time.Įlectron allows to code with HTML, CSS, and JS because it brings a full web engine (chromium, the same which powers Google Chrome) on desktop, and brings it OS level functions (like file access, recursive folder scaning…) thanks to Node.js. But when I understood the potential of these, by reading articles, documentations, and seeing various video tutorials, I understood how they become popular solutions, and here’s why: they are both effective and quick to deploy.Ī good thing with Electron and NPM is that the documentation is very well done and that the community is huge and dynamic. I only experimented few things with the later, and only had vague notions from the first. To make an Electron app, you must have a clear understanding of what Node.js and NPM are. Time to make my own.There was still a lot to learn, but I was ready to jump! Electron My code editor, Atom, is based on Electron, the GitHub Desktop app I used is based on Electron too, and so is the Slack app I used for chatting… I was already using Electron apps on every steps of my workflow. It didn’t seems to have limitations that could impact the project. If you can build a website, you can build a desktop app. Indeed, one of the Tagline for Electron is: In the end, I fallback to my original idea: Electron. There is interesting propositions, but for most of them, it would have needed to much new learning I was ready to learn new frameworks, but not new languages, considering the deadline imposed by the project. At any other solutions, in fact ( Cross-platform GUI Toolkit Trainwreck, 2016 Edition). I took a look at Python ( The 7 Top Python GUI Frameworks for 2017) ( Kivy looks very interesting, Tkinter seems accessible, but as I didn’t knew a lot about Python, it seems to complex for me to handle at that time), and even at PHP based solution (this would have been a pretty unusual choice, but it can work, according to this article: 3 Ways to Develop Cross Platform Desktop Apps with PHP - SitePoint). It is possible to built nice desktop apps with Lua (like ZeroBrane), but it is a bit overwhelming when you don’t know where to start.
For Lua for eg, there is quite various GUI frameworks, but they are not all cross-platform, most are outdated, some are really complex, and in most cases, the documentation is minimal. So I made a lot of research, in order to compare languages, frameworks… I had to find something not too far from what I already knew (no low-level programming for me) and that could be deployed quickly, with a simple GUI library. I had an idea in mind, Electron, which allows to made cross-platform apps with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, but I wanted to be sure it was the best choice before proposing a solution. The thing is… I have made a tons of scripts, but I never made a desktop app before. The kind of thing desktop apps can do nicely. This means that for security reason, JavaScript in browsers can’t do complex OS functions, like scanning files from repository the kind of thing I needed to do. But I faced a problem: JavaScript in browsers is sandboxed. I initially thought about a web-based solution, HTML, CSS and JavaScript to power the whole thing. And when I saw the complex GUI elements exposed on the app guidelines, I knew that I would have to go for an external app solution. ReaScript VS Desktop AppĪs ReaScript functions are not accessible for non opened project in REAPER, I knew from the start that a script solution would have no advantage.
It was the occasion for me to learn a lot of new things, from programming practice, to tech solutions: this is how I created my first multi-platform desktop app! Here what I have learned during this contract.
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This summer, I get contacted by Pedro Alfageme, Loc Audio Engineering Manager at Electronic Arts, as a REAPER ReaScript expert, for creating a script which could generate new and update existing REAPER projects files based on CSV sheets and thousands of media files.
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