electron-vite-react

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Overview

📦 Out of the box
🎯 Based on react-ts template, less invasive
🌱 Simple directory structure，real flexible
💪 Support Use Electron、Node.js API and in Renderer-process
🔩 Support C/C++ native addons
🖥 It's easy to implement multiple windows

Quick start

npm create electron-vite

Debug

Directory structure

🚨 By default, the files in electron folder will be built into the dist/electron

├── electron                  Electron-related code
│   ├── main                  Main-process source code
│   ├── preload               Preload-script source code
│   └── resources             Resources for the production build
│       ├── icon.icns             Icon for the application on macOS
│       ├── icon.ico              Icon for the application
│       ├── installerIcon.ico     Icon for the application installer
│       └── uninstallerIcon.ico   Icon for the application uninstaller
│
├── release                   Generated after production build, contains executables
│   └──{version}
│       ├── {os}-unpacked     Contains unpacked application executable
│       └── Setup.{ext}       Installer for the application
│
├── public                    Static assets
└── src                       Renderer source code, your React application

🚨 dependencies vs devDependencies

Put Node.js packages in dependencies

🚨 e.g.

• electron-store
• sqlite3
• serilaport
• mongodb
• ...others Node.js packages

Put Web packages in devDependencies

🚨 e.g.

• react
• react-dom
• react-router
• mobx
• zustand
• antd
• axios
• ...others Web packages

TODO: ESM packages

• node-fetch
• execa
• ...others ESM packages

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