image-shrink

Image Shrink

An image optimizer app to understand Electron basics.

Features

• loading a window file and adding an icon.
• using Nodemon with Electron.
• creating a menu template, using roles and global shortcuts.
• building the interface with Materialize CSS and Font Awesome.
• integrating with Node and handling IPC communication.
• implementing Imagemin with mozjpeg and pngquant to shrink JPEG and PNG files.
• sending events to renderer and displaying a user-friendly notification.
• enabling log files with electron-log.
• packaging our app with electron-packager and testing it.

Based on Electron From Scratch: Build Desktop Apps With JavaScript by Brad Traversy (2020).