Electron starter kit forked from https://github.com/pbarbiero/enhanced-electron-react-boilerplate
- Run
npm install
- Run
npm run dev
to start webpack-dev-server - In another terminal window run
npm run testDev
to start electron
You have two options, an automatic build or two manual steps
- Run
npm run package
to have webpack compile your application intodist/bundle.js
anddist/index.html
, and then an electron-packager run will be triggered for the current platform/arch, outputting tobuilds/
Recommendation: Update the "postpackage" script call in package.json to specify parameters as you choose and use the npm run package
command instead of running these steps manually
- Run
npm run build
to have webpack compile and output your bundle todist/bundle.js
- Then you can call electron-packager directly with any commands you choose
- Run
npm run package-mac
to compile to distribution mac - Run
npm run package-win
to compile to distribution windows(Needs to run in a Windows VM, due to ngrok dependencies in shell and executable scripts) - Run
npm run package-linus
- not tested
If you want to test the production build (In case you think Babili might be breaking something) after running npm run build
you can then call npm run testProd
. This will cause electron to load off of the dist/
build instead of looking for the webpack-dev-server instance.
This project comes with a basic scaffold utility (built on inquirer) to quickly add new components to the application. It lets you create both stateful and stateless components, and you also have the option of spinning up Redux boilerplate to integrate them initially to the redux store with a dummy action that you should swap out immediately. Its written in pure node fs
calls to be cross platform.
- Run
npm run scaffold
- Fill out the prompts
- Profit!