sarstuff / simple-electron-react

Simple boilerplate for building Electron apps with React

Simple Electron React Boilerplate

This is a simple boilerplate to get up and running with Electron and React. It is a customized version of Alex Devero's repo and was created by Brad Traversy

Install

Clone this repo

git clone https://github.com/sarstuff/simple-electron-react.git

Install dependencies

npm install

or

yarn

Usage

Run the app

npm run start

or

yarn start

Build the app (automatic)

npm run package

or

yarn package

when building on Mac,

there can be build problems with Catalina and 32bit apps

brew upgrade wine, make sure "/usr/local/bin/wine64" exist
rm -rf ~/.wine
edit "node_modules/rcedit/lib/rcedit.js", change "wine" to "wine64" at line 42
download "https://github.com/electron/rcedit/releases/download/v1.1.1/rcedit-x64.exe", rename to "rcedit.exe" and replace "node_modules/rcedit/bin/rcedit.exe"

also getting the correct icon for Mac Builds, the --asar tag helps hide the archive code

"electron-packager ./ --out=./release-builds --asar --overwrite --platform=darwin --arch=x64 --icon=assets/icon.icns"

Test the app (after npm run build || yarn run build)

npm run prod

yarn prod

Change app title

Change the app title in the webpack.build.config.js and the webpack.dev.config.js files