candidosales / sails-angular2-electron

Sails JS angular JS and Electron

sails-angular2-electron

Basic cross platform desktop application built with SailsJS, TypeScript, Angular2, Material Design and Electron

(currently working on it...)

Features

• Cross platform desktop application built with Electron (Mac OS, Windows, Linux)
• Rest API built with Sailsjs (server App)
• User interface built in Angular2 (client App)
• NeDB, embedded persistent database with no dependency(except npm modules)
• User authentication and session control (JWT, register, login, logout)
• Simple Dashboard
• Custom context menu
• Grunt automatization, compass, jshint, bower injection, watch, build, start the app, others...
• Browser mode (The task is appropiate just if the client side interface don't have dependencie of nodejs, otherwise the application will not work properly)

Dev

Install Electron

npm install electron-prebuilt -g

Install Grunt

npm install grunt-cli -g

Install Bower

npm install -g bower

For use the electron-packager cli

npm i electron-packager -g

install root dependencies

$ npm install

install the server app dependencias (sails)

$ cd app/server
$ npm install

Install dependencies bower

$ cd ../..
$ bower install

Install Compass

gem install compass

Install TypeScript

npm install typescript -g

Dev Tools

Toggle Dev Tools. Debug features using electron-debug.

• OS X: Cmd Alt I
• Linux: Ctrl Shift I
• Windows: Ctrl Shift I

Reload

Force reload the window.

• OS X: Cmd R
• Linux: Ctrl R
• Windows: Ctrl R

Run

$ npm start

or directly run

$ grunt start

or run with developer tools open from the begining

$ npm run startd

Build

• Build all bundles: $ npm run build
• Build Mac os bundle: $ npm run build-mac
• Build Windows 32: $ npm run build-win32
• Build Windows 64: $ npm run build-win64
• Build linux 32: $ npm run build-linux32
• Build linux 64: $ npm run build-linux64

Builds the app for OS X, Linux, and Windows, using electron-packager.

License

MIT © Cândido Sales Gomes