Blog posts tagged
"snapcraft.io"

279 posts

Alan Pope
26 July 2018

Bringing Electron applications to millions of Linux users

Article Desktop

Electron is one of the most popular frameworks for creating cross-platform desktop applications right now. Many developers use electron-builder to do the heavy-lifting of package management for their Electron apps. electron-builder has support for creating snap packages out of the box. Bringing your Electron desktop app...

Alan Pope
26 July 2018

Alan Pope
24 July 2018

Graphical Abstinence, Living the Terminal Life

Article Cloud and server

In today’s modern world of multi-gigabyte browser based applications we can get overwhelmed by busy, interrupting graphical environments. Sometimes it’s nice to downsize and focus, VT100-style. So let’s leverage the power of the terminal to get stuff done with a selection of apps, utilities and a couple of games for...

Alan Pope
24 July 2018

Canonical
20 July 2018

PowerShell launches as a snap

Article Cloud and server

PowerShell Core from Microsoft is now available for Linux as a Snap. Built on the .NET Framework, PowerShell is an open source task-based command-line shell and scripting language with the goal of being the ubiquitous language for managing hybrid cloud assets. It is designed specifically for system administrators and...

Canonical
20 July 2018

Alan Pope
19 July 2018

Snaps Add Flexibility with Tracks

Article Ubuntu

Snap packages have a rich set of features beyond getting the latest shiny on your Linux distribution. Tracks enable developers to publish multiple supported releases of their application under the same name. With this enabled, a user can switch tracks at any time to install and use an alternate supported relase of...

Alan Pope
19 July 2018

Alan Pope
18 July 2018

Perfectly Formed Snaps Challenge

Development Cloud and server

Summer is here (sorry Southern hemisphere), and with the World Cup and Wimbledon over, it’s time for a new challenge! Background Snaps are universal Linux software packages. That means they can work anywhere, and contain anything. Whether you’re a Pythonista, a Golang developer or if C++ is your bag, Snapcraft can...

Alan Pope
18 July 2018

Martin Wimpress
17 July 2018

Get productive on the Linux desktop with 7 essential apps

Article Desktop

The Linux desktop is not just for people who like to mess with computers. With a wide range of enterprise class productivity and collaboration tools Linux users can enjoy computing parity with their peers and colleagues running other popular desktop computing platforms. Here are 7 apps that will boost your productivity...

Martin Wimpress
17 July 2018

Alan Pope
12 July 2018

Demystifying Snap Confinement

Development Desktop

Snaps introduce some new concepts to the Linux ecosystem which developers can take advantage of, and snap users need to appreciate. When installing a snap, it’s important to understand what parts of the system the application wants access to. It’s up to the user to decide to install (or not) a snap, and the confinement

Alan Pope
12 July 2018

Martin Wimpress
10 July 2018

6 IDEs you need to know about

Article Desktop

Linux has long been a favourite platform with developers due to the rich array of languages and toolchains available. In this article we highlight 6 IDEs that can boost your productivity. Each IDE is just a Snap away so you can easily craft your complete development workstation in seconds. Here are six of the best

Martin Wimpress
10 July 2018

Martin Wimpress
5 July 2018

Make your snap store page pop!

Article Tutorials

Last updated: February 2019 When you publish a snap you want to grab the attention of as many users as possible. The Snap Advocacy team regularly review high quality, new and interesting snaps published in the store so that we can feature them in Editor’s Picks, blog about them here or promote them via social

Martin Wimpress
5 July 2018

Alan Pope
3 July 2018

Fresh Snaps from June 2018

Article Desktop

It’s mid-way through the year, and we’re seeing no let-up with the flow of new snaps landing in the store, we can barely keep up! This month we’ve picked out some of our favourites from the last month or so of social posts on the Snapcraft Twitter account for you. Many are fresh new snaps

Alan Pope
3 July 2018

Sarah Dickinson
19 June 2018

Zenkit: The influence of developer communities in progressing snaps

Article Desktop

Last month, Zenkit published their project management tool as a snap. For those not familiar with Zenkit, they introduced themselves in a guest blog at the time the snap was published which can be read here. Since then, we caught up with Philipp Beck, Full Stack Developer at Zenkit, to discover his opinion on snaps

Sarah Dickinson
19 June 2018

Alan Pope
5 June 2018

Fresh Snaps from May 2018

Desktop Desktop

Spring has sprung a bounty of applications in the snap store! We’ve hand picked a small selection from those we highlighted during May 2018. You can stay up to date with our editorial picks by following Snapcraft on Facebook where we share three new and interesting snaps a week. We’d also love to hear what

Alan Pope
5 June 2018

Alan Pope
22 May 2018

Offline Computing – 10 Apps for the Digital Nomad

Desktop Desktop

In today’s always-connected, constantly-inturrupted world, it can often be rewarding to go offline. Disconnecting from the Internet doesn’t mean you have to buy a yurt, live on beans, and get no work done though! While there’s a ton of great apps in the Snap store which rely on a connection to function, there’s also a

Alan Pope
22 May 2018

Alan Pope
16 May 2018

Fresh Snaps from April 2018

Article Desktop

In case you missed it, here are some of the snaps we featured during April 2018. Here you’ll find snaps to enhance your productivity, tools for creatives, IDEs for developers and games for the weekend. You can stay up to date with our editorial picks by following @snapcraftio on Twitter where we share three new

Alan Pope
16 May 2018

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