App Icon Badging, Bouncing and Progress Bar

Count Badges
Works on all platforms
You can easily set the counter using the setBadgeCount method. Setting the count to 0 will hide the badge.
window.todesktop.app.setBadgeCount(2);
Badge count set to 2 (Mac)
Text Badges
Works on Mac only
On mac, you have the option to set the set the dock badge to any text you like.
window.todesktop.app.dock.setBadge("👋🙊 Hello");
Text badge set to "👋🙊 Hello"
Bouncing dock icon
Work on Mac only
Bouncing the dock icon has two modes: critical and informational. If no parameters are used then the default is informational.
informational — the dock icon will bounce once (for a duration of one second)
critical — the dock icon will bounce until either the application becomes active or the request is canceled
// Bounce the dock icon once
window.todesktop.app.dock.bounce('informational');
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// Bounce the dock icon for 5 seconds
const cancelBounceId = window.todesktop.app.dock.bounce('critical');
setTimeout(() => {
    window.todesktop.app.dock.cancelBounce(cancelBounceId);
}, 5000);
Show progress bar
Works on all platforms (Windows, Mac and Linux). On Linux, only the Unity desktop environment is supported.
// Set progress bar to 75%
window.todesktop.window.setProgressBar(0.75)
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// Set progress bar to intermediate mode. Any value
// greater than `1` will trigger intermediate mode
window.todesktop.window.setProgressBar(2)
​
// Remove progress bar. Any value less than `0`
// will remove the progress bar
window.todesktop.window.setProgressBar(-1)
​
// Set progress bar to 75% in error mode (Windows only)
window.todesktop.window.setProgressBar(0.75, {
    // Progress bar modes are only available on Windows.
    // Available modes are: 'indeterminate', 'error', and 'paused'.
    mode: 'error'
})
Progress bar set to 0.75 (Mac)
Putting it all together — An homage to Daft Punk
We made a quick video that puts all the methods together. It's just a bit of fun and not very practical but we hope you enjoy it as much as we enjoyed making it (headphones recommended):
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Putting it all together — An homage to Daft Punk