Move to electron-based app

[danielbuechele]

For version 3 Goofy will move to an electron-based architecture. This means basically all code in this repo will be replaced with the new version.

This decision will hopefully bring some major advantages:

• As electron is based on Chromium, we can add support for call
• Windows and Linux support is possible
• Hopefully some of the weird bugs will vanish
• Not requiring Xcode will potentially allow a bigger developer base to contribute on this project

I started working on Goofy for Work, a version of Goofy to use with Workplace by Facebook. This version is already based on electron and coming along pretty good. Most of the codebase will be shared between Goofy and Goofy for Work.

However, this means all the issues labeled with version 2, will not be addressed, as I focus on version 3. Once this version is released, I will close these issues.

[Etheryte]

When will you add a branch for the electron version? Getting some early testers and/or contributors on board would allow for both the work to be finished faster and for bugs to be caught early.

[danielbuechele]

I hope I can add a branch for this in the next couple of days.

[martinwolf]

If you need a beta tester, let me know!

[kevingelion]

Looking forward to helping out!

[danielbuechele]

I published a branch called electron yesterday. Aiming for a first release today.

[kevingelion]

Awesome! Happy to see you're using nuts for updates 😄

[danielbuechele]

As of now, the branch is merged into master. There are still some things that need to be done. I set up travis to build the app and hope the build process works. I need to verify that auto updating is working. after that, I will publish an update to all Goofy 2 users with the new version and update the website.

[danielbuechele]

I just released v3. Closing this issue.