Electron for Desktop Apps: The Complete Developer's Guide (Udemy.com)

I very liked explaination and course content. But there are severaly things which I should notify. First, the MOST ANNOYİNG thing for me is that instructor slurp his mouth every single video. That sound made me extremely mad throughout course. I adivice to instructor to ridding of this habit. The second thing is that course content is old but luckily most of thing are still actual. All the remaining things are good. Good luck to everyone.

A very practical, memoriable and crispy course about electron. My Level is intermediate and following the videos without stopping was no problem at all. Perfect chunks of videos, super visual- and soundquality. I also liked the visual components in briefings, it was easier to understand and to follow. You can still make some improvements, which I think they are missing: - UI Section, since Electron is a Fullstack App. Maybe Vue, a good lightweight FrontEnd Framework especially how to use it with Electron. - Testing, testing is always good - Linux support, like many threads have shown - Support at all, there have been a couple of threads with no answers. I tried to help out, but I am still at the beginning - updated code, specially because you intended to focus only on the backend of electron so we had to download two boilerplates (convert and tasky). e.g.: convert has the same name and description in package.json as tasky and electron versions was 1.6.2 its now 9.2.1 - Deployment/Update Section Keep it up, I will definitely come again for some updates.

Be prepared to sit and listen to a lot of explanation, like you did in biology class... minus the interaction. This is more of a teacher explaining in a class room rather than a hands on coding experience, which is pretty obvious by the amount of slides prepared. It gets pretty obvious as you go through the course that he has spent a great deal of time preparing slides that are very graphical based. I actually by the end of course went back and counted how many lines of code in total was written. Well.... 200.... 200 lines of code for an 8 hour video. So he roughly he spends 2 minutes and 30 seconds to write and explain 1 line of code. That's just waaay too high. he just spends a lot of time explaining the code, explaining the ins and outs of electron, and explaining React and Redux. Oh, and about React and Redux: Two whole sections are based on pre-written code compiled with those. So if you've never used React & Redux or you're a Vue type of person and just don't care about those two technologies... too bad. Having said those, I knew that this was going to happen and actually bought this as a complementary to another more technical course. Going in in that mentality, this course is not so bad.

This course was excellent. Clear instruction. Good humor. Even though it is a little out of date , the material is very useful few very few bugs. Thanks a lot Stephen! For anyone taking this course, remember to update to the latest versions of Node.JS and Electron. Also remember to set webpreferences: { nodeintegration: true }. If not, the require statement will not work.

Another great course from Stephen! It's a little outdated and some of the code doesn't work, but you really learn a lot about Electron and the communications between the web app side. If you're familiar with React/Redux and you want a big challenge to your learning, you can update the example applications with current versions of the technologies used.

I have no trouble following the content even though I am working on a windows. Of course, there are certain functionalities that I can't do, for example, tray.setTitle() which only available on mac for electron. But this entire series gave me a very good insight on how should I approach and start my project. If anyone of you are looking for a way to deploy your app, try electron-packager. Works like magic. Also, be sure to check out this link for the solution @ lecture 71. There is some error in the code from the video. https://www.udemy.com/electron-react-tutorial/learn/v4/questions/3844878

Very well pleased - Stephen is an exemplary instructor: clear, complete, entertaining, informative with usable examples. Concerns are that the use of React distracts from what is going on with process flow, esp. button actions. Would prefer to have less non-electron material (getting ffmpeg to work took time; use of tray functions appears to be unique to Atom - I am using Windows and VSCode). Concerns do not detract from course being an excellent introduction.

I believe I got what I needed out of this course, and Stephen is exceptional at explaining concepts. There wasn't a single moment in the course where I had to stop and ask "wait, what?" I think the course could be improved with projects that relied less on extraneous tools like ffmpeg and React, because such a significant portion of the course contents involved either hand waving or explanations of all of that non-Electron stuff, to a level that was probably a bit excessive. I actually learned pretty much nothing new about Electron in the course's final module. Still, I learned enough about Electron that I'm confident I could build my own application with it soon without too much trouble.

Only found one error in the course; the convert app had a string.split undefined error due to a few missing lines in the file ConvertPanel.js in the components directory, which was actually corrected in the completed code file stored on github: https://github.com/StephenGrider/ElectronCode/tree/master/completed_code. If the completed code file ConvertPanel.js is included in the app, the app runs without error. You might wish to update the github app files used in the course with the latest version of ConvertPanel.js in order that other students don't run into the same error I found.

I really enjoyed this course on Electron. It really opened my eyes to the potential of using electron as a platform for desktop applications. The author of the course has put in a lot of effort to make this a very engaging and useful course with good explanations for things and keeping each set of demos straight to the point and uncluttered from things that distract from the topic at hand. Overall great course and it has encouraged me to buy more courses on the topics I'm interested in from Stephen Grider. Recommended author for good in-depth explanations and accessibility to each topic.