Application which will help managing the coffe shop or a store.
- NodeJS, Electron, Express, MongoDB
- Server logs in the app
Press 'F1' to show the server log:
Before start: Please note that this approach is intended for use in Windows platform, any other OS approach would need some changes, contributions are very welcome :)
Download Node.exe
and Node.lib
: https://nodejs.org/dist/v7.2.1/win-x64/
After downloading a copy of this repository place those files in the root of the code folder. When the Electron app starts it will spawn the Express app using an external copy of Node. This allows the Express app to run outside the Electron process.
Here is a screenshot of the file layout:
- Clone or download the code repo
- Open terminal to code repository
- Make sure a copy of
Node.exe
andNode.lib
are copied to the root of the code repo - Download and install MongoDB locally
- Run
npm install
in the root "caffe-manager" and in the "express-app" folder to install all the dependencies - Run
npm start
in the root to start the application
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If you want to package this using electron-packager
you'll need to
make the following changes:
In index.html (line ~65):
app = require("electron").remote.app),
node = spawn(".\\node.exe", ["./express-app/bin/www"], {
cwd: app.getAppPath()
});
This makes sure that the path to our local copy of node.exe
is correct when we run electron to start the app.
That said, I'm assuming the platform is Windows. If other platforms are desirable additional changes are required.
Electron-Packager Tutorial https://www.christianengvall.se/electron-packager-tutorial/
In this scenario you will not need to have Node.exe and Node.lib like the README states. Using child_process.fork
instead of child_process.spawn
allows our code to work in exactly the same way but Electron will be used to spawn a new process for the Express server instead of our copy of Node.
In index.html
around line 64 change the code to:
app = require('electron').remote.app,
node = require("child_process")
.fork(`${app.getAppPath()}/express-app/bin/www`,
[], {
stdio: ['pipe', 'pipe', 'pipe', 'ipc'],
})
You can then package the code up using the command line:
electron-packager . --overwrite --platform=win32 --arch=x64 --prune=true --out=release-builds --version-string.CompanyName=CE --version-string.FileDescription=CE --version-string.ProductName=\"Electron-With-Express\" --asar
Download standalone distribution of Node: https://nodejs.org/dist/v9.4.0/node-v9.4.0-linux-x64.tar.gz
Unpack it into the root of the cloned repository. Then create a symbolic link called 'node' at the same location.
ln -sf node-v9.4.0-linux-x64/bin/node node
Change line 65 in index.html to the following:
node = spawn("./node", ["./express-app/bin/www"], { cwd: process.cwd() });
Then you can run it like this:
./node start-electron.js &
Or edit the scripts section in 'package.json' and change it to:
"scripts": {
"start": "./node start-electron.js"
},
Then run
npm start
- Download node binaries for OSX and extract the files.
- Copy the file called "node" into the root folder. There is no need of any other file (node.lib)
In index.html change the line
node = spawn(".\\node", ["./express-app/bin/www"], {
to
node = spawn("./node", ["./express-app/bin/www"], {
In package.json change the line
"start": ".\\node start-electron.js"
to
"start": "./node start-electron.js"
Then run
npm start
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