Minimal boilerplate for making Desktop Applications using Electron, React and Webpack

Overview

After being annoyed for so many days for searching a decent, working and minimal boilerplate for writing Desktop Application using Electron and React, this project was made to make the life easier a bit.

This project makes use of electron with electron-webpack and react to serve the best environment for development.

Installation

To install this boilerplate you need to run following commands

# Clone the repository on your hard drive
git clone https://gitlab.com/codesbiome/electron-react-webpack
cd electron-react-webpack

# Install dependencies using "Yarn" package manager
yarn install

Development

To develop and run your application, you need to run following command

yarn dev

Production - Build

To build the unpacked version of application

# Unpacked version build
yarn build

To build the packed (installer) version of application

# Packed version with Installer build
yarn build:setup

Clean

To clean the production environment builds (files), use this command

yarn clean