Lan Jam is a small desktop application that demonstrates how to use Electron as a desktop wrapper for an Angular WebApplication. It also demonstrates how to use WebSocket technology to allow multi-client interaction in this context and how to use the Web MIDI API to interact with connected electronic music instruments.
To take advantage of the dev-server live reload feature of Angular-CLI disable this line in the /electron-app/main.js:
const httpServer = require('./http-server.js');
Then $ npm start from the /web-app directory
and $ npm start from the /electron-app directory.
Now electron uses the dev-server as http-server and live reload will work.
When the Angular WebApp is finished build it from the /web-app directory with $ npm run build:electron.
and $ npm start from the /electron-app directory.
Don't forget to enable the http-server by having this line in the /electron-app/main.js:
const httpServer = require('./http-server.js');
Now electron will serve the build WebApp.
To distribute the desktop app as an executable,
run $ npm run build from the /electron-app directory.
This will use electron-packager to package the app into an executable file, depending on your operating system.