React Desktop Windows Window Component

React Desktop is a popular library to bring the native desktop experience to the web. This library provides macOS and Windows OS components. Window Component is used to allow the users to create a window. We can use the following approach in ReactJS to use the React Desktop Windows Window Component.

Window Props:

• background: It is used to set the component background color.
• chrome: It is used to set the chrome of the window.
• color: It is used to set component and its children’s main color.
• height: It is used to set the component height.
• hidden: It is used to set component visibility.
• horizontalAlignment: It is used to set the component’s content horizontally aligned.
• padding: It is used to set the padding inside a component.
• theme: It is used to set the UI theme and this theme is then used by this component and its children elements.
• verticalAlignment: It is used to set the component’s content vertically aligned.
• width: It is used to set the component width.

Creating React Application And Installing Module:

• 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.

Project Structure

Example: Now write down the following code in the App.js file. Here, App is our default component where we have written our code.

App.js

import React from 'react'
import { Window } from 'react-desktop/windows';

export default function App() {
  return (
    <div style={{
      display: 'block', width: 700, paddingLeft: 30
    }}>
      <h4>React Desktop Windows Window Component</h4>
      <Window
        color="orange"
        padding="10px"
        height="200px"
        width="400px"
        chrome
      >
        Greetings from GeeksforGeeks
      </Window>
    </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:

Reference: https://reactdesktop.js.org/docs/windows/window

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