electron-boilerplate

An electron boilerplate project incl. PouchDB, AngularJS + Material Design

Included modules

• Electron
• AngularJS 1.5
• Angular Material Design 1.x
• Angular UI Router
• PouchDB + Plugins (MongoDB-style query language and full-text search engine support)
• Lovefield

Getting started

• install node.js (at least Node 4.4.x+ and NPM 2.14.x+ required) from here
• install Git from here
• install Python 2.7 from here and add the installation directory to your system path variable
• For Windows, install Windows SDK for Windows Server 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 from here
• For Windows, install Visual Studio 2013/2015 (Express for Desktop is sufficient).
• clone git repository (git clone -b angularjs https://github.com/appelgriebsch/electron-boilerplate.git ./myproject)
• open terminal and run npm install to install dependencies
• start application in debug by executing npm start in terminal

Screenshot

Build Distributable Packages

• on OS X (10.9+): creates application bundle and distributable disk image (x64 only, Mac AppStore compatible variant incl.)

  npm run build:osx             // will execute sub-tasks npm run build:osx-app (standalone) and npm run build:osx-mas (Mac AppStore version)

• on Windows (7+): creates application .exe and distributable setup.exe (x86 and x64)

  npm run build:win32         // will execute sub-tasks npm run build:win32-ia32 and npm run build:win32-x64

• on Linux (Ubuntu/Fedora): creates application and distributable packages for deb-style and rpm-style distributions (x86 and x64)

  npm run build:linux       // will execute sub-tasks npm run build:linux-ia32 and npm run build:linux-x64