universal-plugin-electron

A plugin to package Universal-Scripts apps as Electron redistributables.

Usage

You need to configure your project for Electron first. This usually involve some of the following steps:

• Adding a index generation step to the build process
• Disabling SSR
• Generating an Electron build for the main thread

Once you're done, this plugin will help you package your app for the different platforms.

To install it, start with:

npm install --save-dev @gluedigital/universal-plugin-electron

Then add this line to your package.json in the scripts section:

  "package": "universal-plugin-electron",

Finally, to generate a build just run:

npm run package

A redistributable installer for your current platform will be generated at out/installers/.

Config

If you want to pass some settings to the different packagers, just add a electronOptions key to your package.json, with an object with any of these keys:

• packager with options for electron-packager
• win with options related to InnoSetup`
• osx with options for electron-installer-dmg
• deb with options for electron-installer-debian

Why to use this?

This package doesn't do anything big, but helps you keep the Electron bundler dependencies managed, so you only need to care about a single package.