React Desktop is a popular library to bring the native desktop experience to the web. This library provides macOS and Windows OS components. It is a cross-platform desktop development library. It is also compatible with electron.js and NW.js. It is mostly used in javascript-powered projects.
Installation Steps of React Desktop:
Step 1: Create a React application using the following command:
npx create-react-app foldername
Step 2: After creating your project folder i.e. foldername, move to it using the following command:
cd foldername
Step 3: After creating the ReactJS application, Install the required module using the following command:
npm install react-desktop
Project Structure:
It will look like the following.
Now let’s understand the working concept through an example.
Example: In this example, we will be using the TitleBar component of react desktop to create a TitleBar. Now write down the following code in the App.js file. Here, the App is our default component where we have written our code.
Javascript
import React from 'react'import { TitleBar } from 'react-desktop/windows';export default function App() { return ( <div style={{ display: 'block', width: 400, paddingLeft: 30 }}> <h4>React Desktop Windows TitleBar Component</h4> <TitleBar title="Sample TitleBar" controls isMaximized="false" background="orange" /> </div> );} |
Step to Run Application:
Run the application using the following command from the root directory of the project:
npm start
Output: Now open your browser and go to http://localhost:3000/, you will see the following output:
