Apps.Electron

The seeds to build distributions of your “desktop” apps with Electron for running well on macOS, Windows & Linux

Steps:

• Clone this repo to your computer
• Copy all ready-to-go files of your app into folder “src/app-primary”
• Replace the icons (in the “build” folder) by your app icon - use this convert tool (https://cloudconvert.com) if you need to create icon files from your PNG image
• Type “npm install” to install all dependencies (in terminal/command prompt at the project folder, of course)
• Type “npm run electron” to test your “desktop” app that packed with Electron
• Type “npm run electron-build” to build the distributions of your app (macOS, Windows & Linux)
• Open the folder named “dist” to see the distributions of your “desktop” app.

More information:

• Modify the publish section of package.json to specify the endpoint of app releases for checking updates (demo value is http://127.0.0.1:8080/)
• Electron (Mother of ATOM, GitHub Desktop, Visual Studio Code, …): https://electron.atom.io/
• Electron Builder (The excellent tool that does this job): https://www.electron.build/
• Make desktop application with Ionic & Electron (very good step-by-step article): https://competenepal.com/ionic2-electron/