Introduction

Bootstrap your project with Angular 4 and Electron (Typescript + SASS)

Currently runs with:

• Angular v4.0.1
• Angular-CLI v1.0.0
• Electron v1.6.2

With this sample, you can :

• Run your app in a local development environment with Electron & Hot reload
• Package your app into an executable file for Linux, Windows & Mac

Getting Started

Clone this repository locally :

git clone https://github.com/maximegris/angular-electron.git

Install dependencies with your favorite dependencies manager (npm or yarn) :

npm install

If you want to use Angular-cli to generate components, you must install @angular/cli in the global context.
Please follow Angular-cli documentation if you had installed an previous version of angular-cli.

npm install -g @angular/cli

To build for development

in a terminal window -> npm start
in another terminal window -> npm run electron:serve

Voila! You have your Angular + Electron app in a local development environment with hot reload !

The code for this is managed at main.js. In this sample, the app runs with a simple Electron window and "Developer Tools" is open.
You can desactivate "Developer Tools" by commenting win.webContents.openDevTools(); in main.js.

To build for production

• npm run electron:dist

You can find your built files in the /dist directory.

Included Commands

• npm run electron:linux - builds your application and creates an app consumable on linux systems.
• npm run electron:windows - On a Windows OS, builds your application and creates an app consumable in windows 32/64 bit systems.
• npm run electron:mac - On a MAC OS, builds your application and generates a .app file of your application that can be run on Mac.

Your application is optimised. There are only the files of /dist folder in the generated executable.

Use NodeJS Native libraries

By default, Angular-Cli doesn't seem to be able to import nodeJS native libs or electron libs during compilation time. If you need to use NodeJS native libraries like 'fs' or 'os', you MUST add it manually in the file webpack.config.js in root directory :

  "externals": {
    "child_process": 'require(\'child_process\')',
    "electron": 'require(\'electron\')',
    "fs": 'require(\'fs\')'
  },