A boilerplate for Scalable Cross-Platform Desktop Apps based on Electron, React, Redux, React Router, Webpack and React Hot Loader for rapid application development (HMR).
Install
- If you have installation or compilation issues with this project, please see our debugging guide
First, clone the repo via git:
git clone --depth 1 --single-branch --branch master https://github.com/electron-react-boilerplate/electron-react-boilerplate.git your-project-name
And then install the dependencies with yarn.
$ cd your-project-name
$ yarn
Run
Start the app in the dev
environment. This starts the renderer process in hot-module-replacement mode and starts a webpack dev server that sends hot updates to the renderer process:
$ yarn dev
If you don't need autofocus when your files was changed, then run dev
with env START_MINIMIZED=true
:
$ START_MINIMIZED=true yarn dev
Packaging
To package apps for the local platform:
$ yarn package
To package apps for all platforms:
First, refer to the Multi Platform Build docs for dependencies.
Then,
$ yarn package-all
To package apps with options:
$ yarn package --[option]
To run End-to-End Test
$ yarn build-e2e
$ yarn test-e2e
# Running e2e tests in a minimized window
$ START_MINIMIZED=true yarn build-e2e
$ yarn test-e2e
DEBUG_PROD
env variable:
DEBUG_PROD=true yarn package
CSS Modules
This boilerplate is configured to use css-modules out of the box.
All .css
file extensions will use css-modules unless it has .global.css
.
If you need global styles, stylesheets with .global.css
will not go through the
css-modules loader. e.g. app.global.css
If you want to import global css libraries (like bootstrap
), you can just write the following code in .global.css
:
@import '~bootstrap/dist/css/bootstrap.css';
SASS support
If you want to use Sass in your app, you only need to import .sass
files instead of .css
once:
import './app.global.scss';
Static Type Checking
This project comes with Flow support out of the box! You can annotate your code with types, get Flow errors as ESLint errors, and get type errors during runtime during development. Types are completely optional.
Dispatching redux actions from main process
How to keep your project updated with the boilerplate
If your application is a fork from this repo, you can add this repo to another git remote:
git remote add upstream https://github.com/electron-react-boilerplate/electron-react-boilerplate.git
Then, use git to merge some latest commits:
git pull upstream master
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