Welcome to Electron-Weather!

This repository houses a series of introductory-to-intermediate exercises to Git familiar with Electron by manipulating and extending a prebuilt weather app.

Summary

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.

Prerequisites

• Install Git
• Get familiar with Git commands
• Install a text editor
• Install Node.js

Install Git

macOS

• Mac users, while you probably already have a version of Git on your system, it may be out-of-date.
• Consider installing the latest stable version of Git with Homebrew

  brew install git

• If you prefer a GUI, try GitHub Desktop

Windows

• GitHub Desktop is an easy way to install the Git command line tools on Windows.

Linux

• While some Linux distributions come with a version of Git installed, it's often out-of-date. This guide has recommended commands to install Git with your distribution's preferred package manager.

Get familiar with Git commands

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.

Install a text editor

Install Node.js

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.

macOS

• Homebrew (recommended) or installer package
  • Treehouse has a Homebrew installation guide
  • …and a Node.js installation guide
• Homebrew makes it easier to upgrade Node.js, and doesn't require admin privileges (sudo) or manually updating the $PATH.

Windows

• Installer package
  • Treehouse has a nice step-by-step guide

Linux

• Let's leave this up to users, making the assumption that as Linux users they can figure it out 😁
  • Treehouse recommends installing via Linuxbrew

Steps for Getting Started

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.

End Product

At the end of all of our exercises, you should have an app that looks similar to this!

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Extended Resources

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