Laravel Desktop Application: Electron and SQLite to building an offline Contacts CRUD

Or do you have a web app? You can also turn it into a desktop application!

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What we are going to build?

A desktop application that allows managing of contacts, using a Laravel web app.

For this, we are going to use Laravel Electron project.

This can also be interesting for anyone who wants to convert his web application into a desktop application.

What is Electron?

ElectronJS

ElectronJS is a very popular open-source platform for building cross-platform desktop applications.

We will be using it to show our web app made with Laravel, and that it will be available at 127.0.0.1:8000.

Your Laravel web app as a desktop application

First Step: Make it work

Like the documentation says, we will need to:

1. Download Laravel Electron repository. Better than clone it because we won’t…