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Electron’s shell functionality assists developers with helpful ways to interact with the desktop environment. The methods within shell are designed as shortcuts to assist us in identifying and opening that files our application cannot (and should not) open itself. Your application can open files in the background, which is usually how you can use shell.
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Griffith, C., Wells, L. (2017). Shell. In: Electron: From Beginner to Pro. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-2826-5_10
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