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Transforming JavaScript-Based Web Application to Cross-Platform Desktop with Electron

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Information Science and Applications 2018 (ICISA 2018)

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Over the years, various ways emerge for evolving the existing applications towards a shared codebase. Among several, Electron is a well-known framework for web developers to build cross-platform desktop applications using familiar web technologies, such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. This paper thus presents an approach for transforming web applications created with JavaScript to desktop applications that can run on Windows, MacOS, and Linux. The output desktop application would remain the old set of source code for further development.

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  1. Department of Computer Engineering, Chulalongkorn University, 10330, Bangkok, Thailand

    Kitti Kredpattanakul & Yachai Limpiyakorn

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  1. Kitti Kredpattanakul
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Correspondence to Yachai Limpiyakorn .

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  1. iCatse, Seongnam, Gyeonggi, Korea (Republic of)

    Kuinam J. Kim

  2. School of Computer Science and Engineering, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea (Republic of)

    Nakhoon Baek

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Kredpattanakul, K., Limpiyakorn, Y. (2019). Transforming JavaScript-Based Web Application to Cross-Platform Desktop with Electron. In: Kim, K., Baek, N. (eds) Information Science and Applications 2018. ICISA 2018. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 514. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1056-0_56

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