Vent3st/retronbp

Vite + Electron + React + Material-UI Template

This is a skeleton template for easily creating React-based Electron projects.

It is configured to experience fast development and build speed using Vite bundler. As a bonus, it includes several React utilities and layout configurations.

Advantages of use

✅ You can build immediately without any presets, so you can develop quickly.
✅ It is being maintained quickly to be compatible with the latest React and Electron, as well as many modules.
✅ There is no need to worry about layout and data management by using various additional templates.

Features

⚡️ Rapid development through hot-reload
⚡️ Cross-platform development and build support
⚡️ Support for automated application testing
⚡️ TypeScript support
⚡️ Multilingual support
⚡️ Support for themes (dark & light)
⚡️ Basic layout manager
⚡️ Global state management through the Redux store
⚡️ Quick support through the GitHub community

Components

For compile & build
- vite
- electron
- electron-builder (Package builder)
For web development framework
- react
- react-dom
- react-router-dom
- @redux/toolkit & react-redux (Global state management)
- typescript
For CSS Design
- @mui/material (Material Design CSS Framework)
- @emotion/react
For Multilingual language support
- i18next (Multilingual translation)
For development utils
- eslint (Code syntax checking)
- eslint-plugin-react-hooks
- prettier
For testing
- playwright

Installation

You can easily clone a repository with just the npm command. (Recommend)

$ npm init retron

OR, Click Use this template to instantly create your own project.

OR, Clone this repo using below command.

$ git clone https://github.com/jooy2/retron <PROJECT_NAME>

Then, install the dependency module.

# via npm
$ npm i

# via yarn (https://yarnpkg.com)
$ yarn install

# via pnpm (https://pnpm.io)
$ pnpm i

You can test your project in the development environment using the following command:

$ npm run dev

Build

Retron can build targeting Windows 10 or later, macOS 14.x or later, and major Linux distributions.

# For Windows (.exe, .appx)
$ npm run build:win

# For macOS (.dmg)
$ npm run build:mac

# For Linux (.rpm, .deb, .snap)
$ npm run build:linux

The built packages can be found in release/{version} location.

Build settings for projects that use Native Node modules

For projects that use the Native Node Module, add the following script to your package.json: When installing dependencies, electron-builder will take care of any modules that require rebuilding.

{
  "scripts": {
    "postinstall": "electron-builder install-app-deps"
  }
}

What do I need to do for a multi-platform build?

macOS is recommended if you want to build multiple platforms simultaneously on one platform. Because it can be configured with just a few very simple settings.

You can perform multi-platform builds at once with the following command. Alternatively, you can just do it for the OS you want via the individual build commands above.

$ npm run build

Looking for Electron templates made with Vue?

Also check out the Vutron project, which consists of Vite + Vue 3 + Vuetify + Electron.

https://github.com/jooy2/vutron

Contribute

You can report issues on GitHub Issue. You can also request a pull to fix bugs and add frequently used features.

Vent3st / retronbp