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Desktop Dev for the Web Dev

It can be really frustrating trying to make a great looking desktop app. Especially if you are coming from the world of wep development. The resources feel slow limited. The tooling feels so cumbersome. It is 2021, it should be easier to make a cross-platorm desktop application that your users will truly want to use every day.

In this series I'll explore electron and how to use it to unlock the benefits of modern web development in our desktop project. We'll use libraries like Tailwind CSS, Vite, and Vue to bring the following to our project:

  • Native ESM
  • Utility First CSS
  • State Management
  • Hot Module Replacement

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