Create Proton Native App

Create Proton Native apps with no build configuration. Works on Linux, MacOS and Windows.

Requirements

Windows:

npm install --global --production windows-build-tools

Linux:

Install these libraries:

• libgtk-3-dev
• build-essential

Usage

# install the cli
npm install -g create-proton-app
# create your proton native app
create-proton-app my-app
# got to your project directory and have fun!
cd my-app
npm run start

It will create a directory called my-app inside the current folder. Inside that directory, it will generate the initial project structure and install Proton Native dependencies:

my-app
├── node_modules
├── package.json
├── index.js
└── .babelrc

Packaging

We use electron-builder to handle the packaging for your application. Produces bundles for Linux(appImages, snaps, deb, rpm, ...) and MacOs. Windows support is unstable.

# build your app
npm run build
# bundle it
npm run dist

Only a minimal build/packaging config is provided, as your application grows you should take a look to the documentation.

Contributing

We'd love to have your helping hand!

• If you like this tool and have an idea of how to improve it or want to add an additional feature, create an issue explaining your idea.
• Please, avoid using third party libraries for small/simple tasks, make sure we really need that library in our project, such a simple tool shouln't have lots of dependencies that at the same time have their own almost infinite dependency trees.
• If something doesn’t work, please file an issue.
• Be nice.

License

• MIT