keygen-sh / basic-example-electron-app

A simplistic Electron app example that uses Keygen for license key validation.

Keygen + Electron Example

⚠️ We've put together a new, updated example here: https://github.com/keygen-sh/example-electron-license-activation ⚠️

This is a minimal Electron application integrated with Keygen to handle license key validation upon startup. It is based on the Quick Start Guide within the Electron documentation. For a more advanced user-profile licensing setup, and an example of how to use Keygen for auto updates, check out our other Electron example app.

Use this app along with the Electron API Demos app for API code examples to help you get started.

A basic Electron application needs just these files:

• package.json - Points to the app's main file and lists its details and dependencies.
• main.js - Starts the app and creates a browser window to render HTML. This is the app's main process.
• index.html - A web page to render. This is the app's renderer process.

You can learn more about each of these components within the Quick Start Guide.

To Use

# Clone this repository
git clone https://github.com/keygen-sh/basic-example-electron-app
# Go into the repository
cd basic-example-electron-app

Next, install dependencies with yarn:

yarn

Then start the app:

yarn start

Note: If you're using Linux Bash for Windows, see this guide or use node from the command prompt.

Resources for Learning Electron

• electron.atom.io/docs - all of Electron's documentation
• electron.atom.io/community/#boilerplates - sample starter apps created by the community
• electron/electron-quick-start - a very basic starter Electron app
• electron/simple-samples - small applications with ideas for taking them further
• electron/electron-api-demos - an Electron app that teaches you how to use Electron
• hokein/electron-sample-apps - small demo apps for the various Electron APIs

License

CC0 1.0 (Public Domain)