cra-lerna-electron

Minimal starter kit: ⚛️ create-react-app + 🐉 Lerna + Electron

Getting Started

# Fetch this repo
git clone https://github.com/amaurym/cra-lerna-electron my-app
cd my-app
# Bootstrap the Lerna project, will install all modules
yarn install

Folder structure

The main idea of this starer kit is to separate the Electron and React parts.

.
├── lerna.json                    # Config for Lerna
├── package.json                  # Package.json for the whole repo
├── packages/
│   ├── crale-electron/
│   │   ├── electron-builder.json # Config for electron-build
│   │   ├── electron-webpack.json # Config for electron-webpack
│   │   ├── dist/                 # Binaries bundles by electron-builder
│   │   ├── package.json
│   │   ├── src/
│   │   │   ├── main/             # Your electron app goes here
│   │   ├── static/               # Symlinks to ../crale-react/build/ folder
│   ├── crale-react
│   │   ├── build/                # The built app generated by CRA
│   │   ├── package.json
│   │   ├── src/                  # Your react app goes here

Available Commands

All these commands should be run from the project root.

Command	Description
`yarn start`	Run Electron and React in dev mode, with live reload on file changes. Allows fast iterations.
`yarn build`	Build Electron and React.
`yarn electron`	Build Electron and React, and open Electron with these built files.
`yarn package`	Build Electron and React, and generate binaries with these built files.
`yarn lint`	Check for linting issues in the code.
`yarn test`	Run tests.

For the exhaustive list of available commands, check package.json.

Tooling

Tool	Description
`create-react-app`	All tooling needed for React apps.
`lerna`	Manage JavaScript projects with multiple packages.
`electron-webpack`	Scripts and configurations to compile Electron applications using webpack.
`electron-builder`	A complete solution to package and build a ready for distribution Electron app.

License

MIT.