ElectronJS Build

Phan Quang Đại Mar 25, 2020

Structure

root folder
|---main.js
|---package.json
|---index.html

Instruction

First of all, you need to install the Electron
```
npm install -g electron
```
Let’s go to the folder where you will contains your source
```
npm init -y
```
Then it will create basic files.
```
 main.js
 package.json
 index.html
```
Remember to edit the dependencies, correct it with the right directory!

The package.json has the format like this!

{
  "name": "electron-aloha",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "description": "Aloha",
  "main": "main.js",
  "scripts": {
 "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1"
  },
  "keywords": [],
  "author": "",
  "license": "ISC",
  "dependencies": {
 "electron-squirrel-startup": "^1.0.0"
  }
}

I will go into the main.js and and some code here!

const {app, BrowserWindow, Menu} = require('electron');
const path = require("path");
const url = require("url");
let win;
function createWindow(){
 win = new BrowserWindow();
 Menu.setApplicationMenu(null);
 //win.webContents.on("devtools-opened", () => { win.webContents.closeDevTools(); });
 win.loadURL(url.format({
     pathname : path.join(__dirname, 'index.html'),
     protocol: 'file',
     slashes: true
 }));
 win.on('closed', ()=>{
     win = null;
 })
}
app.on('ready',createWindow);
app.on('window-all-closed', ()=>{
 if (process.platform!=='darwin'){
     app.quit()
 }
});
app.on('active', ()=>{
 if(win===null){
     createWindow()
 }
});

And then, I will add some appearance into index.html
Okay, all is set up! Now let’s run it!
```
electron .
```