electron-archive/husk-cli

A POC for the electron-cli

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benogle commented

I really really want the command line utility for managing electron apps to happen. I think it will make things considerably easier for newbies, and hopefully folks with exiting apps as well.

The current state of master on this repo is a POC for the electron CLI using the current electron hotness (electron-compile, electron-rebuild, electron-packager, electron-prebuilt)

This repo is still called husk because https://github.com/mafintosh/electron-prebuilt creates an electron binary, and I dont own the electron-cli npm module. husk-cli does 3 things right now:

  • bootstraps: npm installs + runs electron-rebuild
  • runs: just runs electron . in the app dir
  • builds: pre-compiles all the source, and packages it, ignoring unnecessary things like electron-compilers

The sample app for use with this is at https://github.com/benogle/electron-sample

Note that running electron-rebuild currently depends on landing some variant of electron/rebuild#11.

@paulcbetts @maxogden @atom/core please take a peek and give feedback.

benogle commented

Plan is to

  • Finish this with specs for run, bootstrap and build commands
  • Add an init command that generates a project
  • Remove the electron binary from electron-prebuilt
  • Rename this to electron-cli
  • Move this (and other related things) into the http://github/electronjs org
  • Put the electron-cli flow in the docs