#Electron

Electron uses the Chromium engine for rendering. This is the same engine that powers the Chrome browser. Sometimes you might run into a situation where a certain JavaScript or CSS feature that your...

As we slowly roll into 2022, I decided to take a step back and have an objective look at my coding stack for the near future. It's a short one - I'll keep it focused strictly on my programming...

Svelte does not come with a built-in router, and there are good reasons for that. One is to keep the framework lean. Another might be to defer the choice of router to the individual developer. There...

A very common scenario when building an Electron app is storing user settings/preferences permanently. This can be done in a number of ways, but one of the most robust is to store the settings on...

SVGX, the Electron-Svelte app I've been working on for close to a year, is finally on Product Hunt. To recap, SVGX is an offline desktop SVG icon & asset manager for designers and developers. I...

Toggling an Electron menu item dynamically is quite simple, though not immediately clear from the official documentation. In an Electron app, the application menu consists of items such as File,...

As I'm wrapping things up on SVGX.app, a desktop app for managing SVG icon libraries, I find myself slogging through the most tedious 10% of the work. Part of that is building platform-specific...

I'm building a desktop app for managing SVG icon libraries called SVGX.app. It uses Electron and Svelte, as well as Forge which is a helpful tool for creating and publishing such apps. I'm also...