dart_electron_starter_kit

Boilerplate project for building Electron apps with Dart. This starter kit is minimal, and only contains what you need to get started right away.

Setup

Assuming you have both npm (or yarn) and the Dart SDK installed, setup is simple:

git clone https://github.com/thosakwe/dart_electron_starter_kit [project-name]
cd [project-name]
pub get
npm install

Afterwards, run npm run dev to start developing.

Development

This package uses package:build_web_compilers and the Dart Dev Compiler to compile a Dart app to JS on-the-fly. Thanks to, package:build_runner, this allows for incremental builds, and hot-reloading.

Now, you can write your Electron app with Dart, leveraging existing JS interop libraries, and, of course, other Dart packages.

Release

To build for production, first run npm run build (or yarn build).

The output directory, build/web/ contains a package.json pointing to the built application, and can be run as follows:

cd build/web
npm install
npm start

Packaging

The output directory's package manifest, build/web/package.json, includes electron-packager, and therefore can be packaged for distribution on Windows, MacOS, and Linux.

Just run npm run build in build/web to build for the host platform. To build for all platforms, run npm run package.