This is a demo Electron application based on the electron-quick-start repo and the Quick Start Guide within the Electron documentation.

This is a sandbox for the Clear My Record team to experiment and learn Electron

Resources we might find useful

• electronjs.org/docs - all of Electron's documentation
• electronjs.org/community#boilerplates - sample starter apps created by the community
• electron/electron-quick-start - a very basic starter Electron app
• electron/simple-samples - small applications with ideas for taking them further
• electron/electron-api-demos - an Electron app that teaches you how to use Electron
• hokein/electron-sample-apps - small demo apps for the various Electron APIs

To Run from the Terminal

To clone and run this repository you'll need Node.js installed on your computer. We recommend brew install node.

From your command line:

# Clone this repository
git clone git@github.com:codeforamerica/cmr-electron-demo.git
# Go into the repository
cd cmr-electron-demo
# Install dependencies
npm install
# Run the app
npm start

To Package and Run as a Desktop App

This app uses electron-packager to build executable versions of the app for various operating systems.

In order to run the packager for Windows, you need to have Wine 1.6 or greater installed. brew install wine

There are npm scripts to build executables for Mac and Windows (64 bit). These scripts must be run from the project root.

• npm run package-osx
• npm run package-windows-x64

The resulting executable will be saved in the project root. They are currently .gitignored so you will need to re-build them locally.

NOTE: The default name for the osx package is [APP-NAME]-darwin-x64.