As developers, it’s easy to get fixated on the mobile sphere. We’re now spending 4-5 hours a day browsing apps on our phone (that’s over 1,800 hours a year), which means a huge volume of demand is channelling into Android and iOS projects. But desktop apps are booming too.
With the rise of the wide spectrum of web and mobile platforms catering to only one has become a restrictive compromise for online business owners. As this only allows them to reach out to a limited spectrum of target users with their products and services. This can constrain businesses in terms of their growth and accessibility. One of the best ways to solve this is to adapt cross-platform programming methods.
Since the early ’90s, computer users and businesses have used Adobe’s venerable PDF format as the de facto choice for digital documents where portability and advanced features such as form-filling, digital signatures, and accurate rendering is important.
TL;DR: You can use Codemagic CI/CD to build and publish Electron desktop apps. In this article, we will create a sample app for monitoring and trading stocks using React and Electron and build it for macOS, Windows, and Linux using Codemagic.
