This repository houses a series of introductory-to-intermediate exercises to Git familiar with Electron by manipulating and extending a prebuilt weather app.
An example app for building a native-looking Mac OS X tray app with a popover using Electron.
The app shows the weather for the current location and refreshes every 10 minutes.
Built with the photon user interface kit. Uses the Dark Sky Forecast API as a data source.
brew install git
You'll want to know how to fork and clone a Git repository, and how to check out a branch.
If you need a refresher, consider exploring our free on-demand training.
Q: Why do we need to install Node.js if Electron includes Node.js?
A: While Electron does include its own version of Node.js, what we'll install first includes
npm
, the Node Package Manager. NPM is what powers our dependency installation and build processes.
sudo
) or manually updating the $PATH
.Step One: Fork this repo
Step Two:
git clone YOURFORKEDCOPY
Step Three:
git checkout electron-setup
Step Four: Open your files in your text editor.
Step Five: Follow the next instructions in the README.md.
At the end of all of our exercises, you should have an app that looks similar to this!
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