com.aalfiann.electron_dev

electron-boilerplate

Boilerplate to kickstart creating an app with Electron

See awesome-electron for more useful Electron resources.

See Caprine for a production app based on this boilerplate.

Features

• electron-builder fully set up to create cross-platform builds
• Builds the app on Travis
• Silent auto-updates
• App menu that adheres to the system user interface guidelines
• Config handling
• Context menu
• User-friendly handling of unhandled errors
• Easily publish new versions to GitHub Releases
• And much more!

Getting started

Click the "Use this template" button.

Alternatively, create a new directory and then run:

$ curl -fsSL https://github.com/sindresorhus/electron-boilerplate/archive/master.tar.gz | tar -xz --strip-components 1

There's also a Yeoman generator.

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App Name

The best app ever

Install

macOS 10.10+, Linux, and Windows 7+ are supported (64-bit only).

macOS

Download the .dmg file.

Linux

Download the .AppImage or .deb file.

The AppImage needs to be made executable after download.

Windows

Download the .exe file.

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Dev

Built with Electron.

Run

$ npm install
$ npm start

Publish

$ npm run release

After Travis finishes building your app, open the release draft it created and click "Publish".