Electron React Redux Advanced Boilerplate

• Author: Ganesh Rathinavel
• License: MIT
• Repo URL: https://github.com/ganeshrvel/electron-react-redux-advanced-boilerplate
• Contacts: [email protected]
• Requirements: Node.js v10 or higher, yarn

Advanced and Highly Scalable Boilerplate for building Electron app - Electron v4, React v16, Redux v4, Webpack v4, Babel v7 {HMR, Helmet, Loadables, Dynamic Reducer Injection, Selectors, Code splitting}

Electron.js is an excellent framework for creating cross-platform native applications using HTML/CSS/JS. But there are only a handful of frameworks available online to get going and I found most of them lack advanced features.

Features

• Latest versions of Electron (v4), React (v16), Redux (v4), Webpack (v4), Babel (v7)
• Material UI (v3.8) for the UI.
• Hot module Reload (HMR) for instant feedback.
• Helmet for better meta info management.
• Highly modular.
• Loadables, Dynamic Reducer Injection, Selectors for efficient Code. splitting and performance/startup optimisation.
• Industry standard State management.
• JSS, SASS/SCSS styling.
• Inbuilt Storage management.
• Inbuilt Settings management with UI feedback and persistence by saving it to a local settings.json file.
• Inbuilt Logs management for capturing errors or debug information along with a rotation period.
• Inbuilt full-blown App-Update manager with progress feedback and an opt-out option.
• Inbuilt Google analytics manager with an opt-out option.
• Inbuilt Error Reporting management with an option to email the compressed log files to the developer.

Installation

$ git clone --depth 1 --single-branch --branch master https://github.com/ganeshrvel/electron-react-redux-advanced-boilerplate.git

$ cd electron-react-redux-advanced-boilerplate

Install Yarn package manager

$ yarn

Run

A fresh clone might throw undefined state error. Run the following commands once to fix the issue.

# For Mac and Linux
$ UPGRADE_EXTENSIONS=1 npm run dev

# For Windows
$ set UPGRADE_EXTENSIONS=1 && npm run dev

# Development
$ yarn dev

# Pre-production
$ yarn start

Package

Setup the code signing to build, package and publish the app.

Instructions: https://www.electron.build/code-signing

$ export GH_TOKEN="<github token>"

# For local platform
$ yarn package

# For multiple platforms
$ yarn package-all

Configurations

• config/env/env.dev.js and config/env/env.prod.js contain the PORT number of the app.
• config/dev-app-update.yml file holds the GitHub repo variables required by electron-updater.
• config/google-analytics-key.js file contains the Google Analytics Tracking ID.
• package.json "build.publish" object holds the values for publishing the packaged application.
• app/constants folder contains all the constants required by the app.

General Information

• Port assigned: 3642
• The logs and settings file can be found in ~/.io.ganeshrvel/electron-react-redux-advanced-boilerplate (which are the values picked up from package.json)

Usage

Binaries

• Binaries and native files should be kept inside the folder build/{OS_NAME}/bin. e.g: build/mac/bin for macOS
• Refer to the binary files as:

import { binaryFile } from '../../utils/binaries';

• Update package.json "build.extraFiles" and "build.mas.binaries" objects accordingly.

Images

• Image files should be kept inside the folder ./app/public/images
• Import the image files as:

// Example
 <img
            src={imgsrc('keyboard.jpg')}
            width="100px"
            height="auto"
          />
 /*
 imgsrc
 * default path: ../public/images/
 * @param filePath
 * @param returnNoImageFound (optional)
 */

Changelog

v2.0.1

• Upgraded to the latest version of Electron, Babel, Webpack.
• Added:
  • Material UI.
  • Inbuilt Storage management.
  • Inbuilt Settings management with UI feedback and persistence by saving it to a local settings.json file.
  • Inbuilt Logs management for capturing errors or debug information along with a rotation period.
  • Inbuilt full-blown App-Update manager with progress feedback and an opt-out option.
  • Inbuilt Google analytics manager with an opt-out option.
  • Inbuilt Error Reporting management with an option to email the Log files to the developer.
• Various other optimization.
• Bug fixes.

v1.0.1

• Added Helmet redux for better meta info management
• New method to handle local image imports
• Replaced react-loadable with react-hot-loader to fix HMR issue
• Added CleanWebpackPlugin
• Other improvements, fixes and optimisations

Debugging

Debugging Guide

Dispatching redux actions from main process:

electron-react-boilerplate/electron-react-boilerplate#118

electron-react-boilerplate/electron-react-boilerplate#108

VM112:2 Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'state' of undefined error:

# For Mac and Linux
$ UPGRADE_EXTENSIONS=1 npm run dev

# For Windows
$ set UPGRADE_EXTENSIONS=1 && npm run dev

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• npm: electron-root-path

Accolades and Credits

• This boilerplate is a heavily modified fork of https://github.com/chentsulin/electron-react-boilerplate

• Icons were provided by from www.flaticon.com

• No image icon made by Phonlaphat Thongsriphong from https://www.iconfinder.com/phatpc

Contribute

• Fork the repo and create your branch from master.
• Ensure that the changes pass linting.
• Update the documentation if needed.
• Make sure your code lints.
• Issue a pull request!

When you submit code changes, your submissions are understood to be under the same MIT License that covers the project. Feel free to contact the maintainers if that's a concern.

Buy me a coffee

Help me keep the app FREE and open for all. Paypal me: paypal.me/ganeshrvel

Contacts

Please feel free to contact me at [email protected]

License

electron-react-redux-advanced-boilerplate | Electron React Redux Advanced Boilerplate is released under MIT License.

Copyright © 2018-Present Ganesh Rathinavel