bootstrap Blitzjs programmatically for Electron

[blackshot]

i'm trying to bootstrap blitzjs using Electron following this tutorial for nextjs and i realized nextjs has a way of bootstraping the server programmatically and get it's main requestHandler like this

// we create our nextjs app
const nextApp = next({ dev });
// we obtain the nextjs request handler
const handler = nextApp.getRequestHandler();

i was wondering if i could do this with blitz.

EDITS: tried to make "new lines" work on code block

[flybayer]

Hey! I think you should be able to use all the code exactly as in the tutorial using next({ dev }) etc. The only different is use blitz build instead of next build in your build script.

[blackshot]

Hey! thanks for replying. but using next({dev}) initializes a pure nextjs app instead of a blitzjs app then throws this error.

> electron index.js


Loaded env from C:\Users\me\Desktop\blitzjs\upnp-manager\.env.local
Loaded env from C:\Users\me\Desktop\blitzjs\upnp-manager\.env
App threw an error during load
Error: > Couldn't find a `pages` directory. Please create one under the project root
    at findPagesDir (C:\Users\me\Desktop\blitzjs\upnp-manager\node_modules\next\dist\lib\find-pages-dir.js:3:170)
    at new DevServer (C:\Users\me\Desktop\blitzjs\upnp-manager\node_modules\next\dist\server\next-dev-server.js:1:4383)
    at createServer (C:\Users\me\Desktop\blitzjs\upnp-manager\node_modules\next\dist\server\next.js:2:607)
    at Object.<anonymous> (C:\Users\me\Desktop\blitzjs\upnp-manager\index.js:12:17)
    at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1145:30)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1166:10)
    at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:981:32)
    at Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:881:14)
    at Function.Module._load (electron/js2c/asar.js:769:28)
    at loadApplicationPackage (C:\Users\me\Desktop\blitzjs\upnp-manager\node_modules\electron\dist\resources\default_app.asar\main.js:109:16)

my blitzjs app was bootstrapped with blitz new myapp

[flybayer]

Ah, yeah the development server for blitz is different.

Try this:

import {dev} from "@blitzjs/server"

await dev({rootFolder: process.cwd()})

[blackshot]

i'm sorry but that returns void and i can't find any documentation. even looking at source code i can't find the way of getting the main RequestHandler for bound it to http server.

[blackshot]

i found the concerning issue tagged with kind/feature-change https://github.com/blitz-js/blitz/issues/303

Custom Server is exactly what i need