codefork/angular-electron-seed

Seed project for an Angular - Electron Desktop app with the Angular-CLI

Angular - Electron seed

A biolerplate for building cross platform desktop apps with Electron, Angular and the Angular-CLI.

This project is based on Angular-CLI version 1.0.0.

What you get

• Electron
• Angular 4
• Angular-CLI 1.0.0
• Bundling and transpiling with Webpack (Typescript, SASS, LESS, Stylus, etc.)
• Development server with LiveReload
• Karma, Jasmine and Protractor for testing
• Code scaffolding via Angular-CLI
• Application packaging via electron-packager
• Yarn

Getting started

Use the seed via git:

git clone https://github.com/DevWurm/angular-electron-seed.git my-project

After this change into my-project and run

yarn install

Available tools

Build

Run yarn run build to build the project. The build artifacts will be stored in the dist/ directory.

Running the app

To run the app based on the created build results, run yarn run run

Development server

Run yarn run start for a dev server. The app will automatically launch and reload if you change any of the source files.

Code scaffolding

If you have the Angular-CLI installed globally you can run ng generate component component-name to generate a new component. You can also use ng generate directive/pipe/service/class/interface/enum/module.

Running unit tests

Run yarn run test to execute the unit tests via Karma.

Running end-to-end tests

Run yarn run e2e to execute the end-to-end tests via Protractor. Before running the tests make sure you are serving the app in a dev server via yarn run start.

Packaging releases

Run yarn run package:win, yarn run package:mac, yarn run package:linux or yarn run package:all to build binary releases for the specified plattform(s).