Start electron when the front-end application is available

[TobiasTao]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

When i use nx run-many --target=serve--projects=<frontend-app-name>,<electron-app-name> --parallel serving a nx electron application, its blank:

I need to restart electron to get the application back to normal
Describe the solution you'd like

add deps：

    "wait-on": "^5.3.0"
    "npm-run-all": "^4.1.5",

add scripts:

    "start": "run-p ng:start electron:start",
    "ng:start": "ng serve -o",
    "electron:start": "wait-on tcp:4200 && nx run <electron-app-name>:serve",

then run ng start, everything is fine : )

[bennymeg]

Thank you for sharing this approach.
Personally, I think invoking the serve command for each project separately it the way to go.

I will link this issue in the documentation.

[julianpoemp]

I'm using the command as workaround:

nx serve <frontend-app> & (sleep 15 && nx serve <desktop-app>)

You can add it to your scripts properties in package.json e.g. as follows:

"start:both": "nx serve <frontend-app> & (sleep 15 && nx serve <desktop-app>)"

If your Electron app starts before your frontend app build successfully, just increase the seconds after the sleepcommand.