How to build an #electron app using Create #react App and Electron Builder
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I recently decided to build a desktop app to download and archive all my Google Photos. I’m really paranoid about loosing all my pics. Google had a few options but they all had their problems.If you want to use the app to download and archive all your Google Photos you can download it here OSX and here WIN.I decided to use Electron and React. This stack was really fun to work on and the application turned out nice.In this blog I’ll share my setup and discuss a few gotchas I ran into.I leveraged these blogs when doing my initial development, 1 & 2 (thanks guys).OK, lets learn how to build an Electron app using Create React App, and package it for distribution using Electron Builder.Lets take a look at the entire stack and then get started. If you want to skip right to the sample app, feel (...)