Built over the previous Reactron template, this version has an embedded express server instance, that can be started and stopped inside React. The communication with the server instance is done via ipcMain/ipcRenderer channels (event-based method).
Default port is 5000, but it can be changed to accept user input.
[ ] Configure babel to generate js file from es6 and Typescript files
First, just npm install to import and install the needed packages.
To create the executable application, just run npm run make. This will build the React application to the folder /build first and then pack it to the Electron executable, which will be built in the folder /out.
In order to run the application on browser, the command is still the default npm start
The command to run the debug React server on the electron executable is npm run dev. It starts the React server and when ready, opens localhost:3000 on the Electron exe. No browser opens when starting React server (option BROWSER=none in .env).