The Electron shell that drives the Rozenite standalone app.

@rozenite/electron-app opens @rozenite/app in a native Electron window. It is the only way rozenite open launches the app: it points a BrowserWindow at the same URL rozenite open already builds. It does not discover Metro targets itself (rozenite open does that), and is not yet packaged as an installable app — it runs from source via npx electron.

Usage

npx rozenite open

rozenite open picks a device, then opens this Electron shell for it.

One process owns every window. Running rozenite open again for a device that already has a window focuses that window instead of opening a second one against the same debugger — so a running window keeps its panel state — while a different device gets a sibling window in the same process.

External links (documentation, npm) open in your browser, and the window has no reload command: panels surviving a JS-VM reload is the point of the standalone app, and reloading the window would discard exactly that state.

On macOS the window runs from a renamed copy of Electron's own app bundle, cached under ~/Library/Caches/rozenite/electron-<version>/. macOS reads an app's name from its bundle before any JavaScript runs, so this is the only way the Dock, Cmd+Tab switcher, menu bar, and Activity Monitor say "Rozenite" rather than "Electron" while the app is still unpackaged. The copy is an APFS clone — it takes about 0.1s to make and no extra disk space — and if anything about it fails, the launcher silently falls back to Electron's own binary.

Current limitations

• Not packaged: there is no installer or standalone binary yet. This package only runs from the monorepo/npm install, spawning the electron dependency directly.
• "Electron" still shows on Windows/Linux and for helper processes: the bundle rename above is macOS-only, and Electron's helper processes keep their own names in Activity Monitor. Packaging the app is what fixes both.
• No window persistence: size and position are not remembered between launches; every window opens at the same default size.
• Same connection model as the browser app: it inherits every limitation of @rozenite/app (single debugger slot, requires Metro).

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