A boilerplate for Scalable Cross-Platform Desktop Apps based on Electron, React, Redux, React Router, Webpack and React Transform HMR for rapid application development.
- 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 https://github.com/electron-react-boilerplate/electron-react-boilerplate.git your-project-name
And then install dependencies with yarn.
$ cd your-project-name
$ yarn
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
Alternatively, you can run the renderer and main processes separately. This way, you can restart one process without waiting for the other. Run these two commands simultaneously in different console tabs:
$ yarn start-renderer-dev
$ yarn start-main-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
To package apps for the local platform:
$ yarn package
To package apps for all platforms:
First, refer to Multi Platform Build 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
💡 You can debug your production build with devtools by simply setting the DEBUG_PROD
env variable:
DEBUG_PROD=true yarn package
You will need to add other modules to this boilerplate, depending on the requirements of your project. For example, you may want to add node-postgres to communicate with PostgreSQL database, or material-ui to reuse react UI components.
This boilerplate uses a two package.json structure. This means, you will have two package.json
files.
./package.json
in the root of your project./app/package.json
insideapp
folder
Rule of thumb is: all modules go into ./package.json
except native modules, or modules with native dependencies or peer dependencies. Native modules, or packages with native dependencies should go into ./app/package.json
.
- If the module is native to a platform (like node-postgres), it should be listed under
dependencies
in./app/package.json
- If a module is
import
ed by another module, include it independencies
in./package.json
. See this ESLint rule. Examples of such modules arematerial-ui
,redux-form
, andmoment
. - Otherwise, modules used for building, testing and debugging should be included in
devDependencies
in./package.json
.
See the wiki page, Module Structure — Two package.json Structure to understand what is native module, the rationale behind two package.json structure and more.
For an example app that uses this boilerplate and packages native dependencies, see erb-sqlite-example.
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';
If you want to use Sass in your app, you only need to import .sass
files instead of .css
once:
import './app.global.scss';
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.
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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