Live editing development on desktop app
Electron application boilerplate based on React, Redux, React Router, Webpack, React Transform HMR for rapid application development
- Note: requires a node version >= 4 and an npm version >= 3.
- If you have installation or compilation issues with this project, please see our debugging guide
First, clone the repo via git:
git clone https://github.com/chentsulin/electron-react-boilerplate.git your-project-name
And then install dependencies.
$ cd your-project-name && npm install
Run these two commands simultaneously in different console tabs.
$ npm run hot-server
$ npm run start-hot
or run two servers with one command
$ npm run dev
Atom
apm install editorconfig es6-javascript javascript-snippets linter linter-eslint language-babel
Sublime
- https://github.com/sindresorhus/editorconfig-sublime#readme
- https://github.com/SublimeLinter/SublimeLinter3
- https://github.com/roadhump/SublimeLinter-eslint
- https://github.com/babel/babel-sublime
Others
- Editorconfig
- ESLint
- Babel Syntax Plugin
- OS X: Cmd Alt I or F12
- Linux: Ctrl Shift I or F12
- Windows: Ctrl Shift I or F12
See electron-debug for more information.
This boilerplate is included following DevTools extensions:
- Devtron - Install via electron-debug.
- React Developer Tools - Install via electron-devtools-installer.
- Redux DevTools - Install via electron-devtools-installer.
You can find the tabs on Chrome DevTools.
If you want to update extensions version, please set UPGRADE_EXTENSIONS
env, just run:
$ UPGRADE_EXTENSIONS=1 npm run dev
# For Windows
$ set UPGRADE_EXTENSIONS=1 && npm run dev
If you use any 3rd party libraries which can't or won't be built with webpack, you must list them in your webpack.config.base.js
:
externals: [
// put your node 3rd party libraries which can't be built with webpack here (mysql, mongodb, and so on..)
]
For a common example, to install Bootstrap, npm i --save bootstrap
and link them in the head of app.html
<link rel="stylesheet" href="../node_modules/bootstrap/dist/css/bootstrap.css" />
<link rel="image/svg+xml" href="../node_modules/bootstrap/dist/fonts/glyphicons-halflings-regular.eot" />
...
Make sure to list bootstrap in externals in webpack.config.base.js
or the app won't include them in the package:
externals: ['bootstrap']
This boilerplate out of the box is configured to use css-modules.
All .css
file extensions will use css-modules unless it has .global.css
.
If you need global styles, stylesheets with .global.css
will not go through the
css-modules loader. e.g. app.global.css
$ npm run package
To package apps for all platforms:
$ npm run package-all
To package apps with options:
$ npm run package -- --[option]
- --name, -n: Application name (default: ElectronReact)
- --version, -v: Electron version (default: latest version)
- --asar, -a: asar support (default: false)
- --icon, -i: Application icon
- --all: pack for all platforms
Use electron-packager
to pack your app with --all
options for darwin (osx), linux and win32 (windows) platform. After build, you will find them in release
folder. Otherwise, you will only find one for your os.
test
, tools
, release
folder and devDependencies in package.json
will be ignored by default.
We add some module's peerDependencies
to ignore option as default for application size reduction.
babel-core
is required bybabel-loader
and its size is ~19 MBnode-libs-browser
is required bywebpack
and its size is ~3MB.
Note: If you want to use any above modules in runtime, for example:
require('babel/register')
, you should move them fromdevDependencies
todependencies
.
Please checkout Building windows apps from non-windows platforms.
see discusses in #118 and #108
If your application is a fork from this repo, you can add this repo to another git remote:
git remote add upstream https://github.com/chentsulin/electron-react-boilerplate.git
Then, use git to merge some latest commits:
git pull upstream master
This project comes with Flow support out of the box! You can annotate your code with types, get Flow errors as ESLint errors, and get type errors during runtime during development. Types are completely optional.
If you want to have native-like User Interface (OS X El Capitan and Windows 10), react-desktop may perfect suit for you.
MIT © C. T. Lin