Electron React Webpack Typescript (Custom Titlebar)

A minimal secure boilerplate for writing Desktop Applications using Electron, React, Webpack & TypeScript with Custom Titlebar.

Special thanks to @guasam for Custom Window Titlebar and Menus modules.

  Want to use ViteJS instead of Webpack?

Introducing the ElectroVite project with a brief description below.

A prebuilt project for creating desktop apps using Electron, React, ViteJS with blazing fast hot-reload, easy to use custom import aliases & executable builds for distribution.

Custom Electron Window Titlebar & Menus etc.

This project includes electron-window for creating custom window components.

Following are the list of features it provides :

• Custom Titlebar for Electron Window.
• Easily changable platform specific controls for max/min/close buttons using windows or mac value for platform property with <WindowFrame> in renderer.
• Titlebar menus can show/hide by pressing alt or option key.
• Window frame title prop displays in titlebar center when menus are toggeled off.
• Menu entries can be customized in misc/window/titlebarMenus.ts file.
• Menu items and windows controls layout or colors can be customized easily by modifying the misc/window modules.

Core Features

• 🌟 Electron
• 🌀 TypeScript
• ⚛️ React
• 🥗 SASS/SCSS Loader
• 🛶 LESS Loader (optional)
• 🎨 CSS Loader
• 📸 Image Loader
• 🆎 Font Loader
• 🧹 ESLint
• 📦 Electron Forge
• 📐 Custom Window Frame
• 📐 Custom Window Titlebar
• 📐 Custom Window Menubar
• 🔱 Webpack & Configuration
• 🧩 Aliases for Project Paths
• 🔥 React Fast Refresh + Webpack HMR
• 🌞 Dark Mode + Light Mode (Theme)
• 🎁 Package Bundling (Distribution / Release)

Custom Aliases for Paths

We can use predefined aliases for import paths already used in this project. Following are the details:

Alias	Target Path
@assets	/assets
@main	/src/main
@renderer	/src/renderer
@common	/src/common
@misc	/misc
@src	/src
@components	/src/renderer/components

Installation

Main version of this project contains files structure in separate context for main and renderer, with custom electron window, titlebar etc.

git clone https://github.com/codesbiome/electron-react-webpack-typescript-2023

OR

Minimal version of ERWT contains very simple project files structure, no custom window, no custom titlebar & menus.

git clone -b minimal https://github.com/codesbiome/electron-react-webpack-typescript-2023

Install dependencies using pnpm or yarn or npm :

# using pnpm
pnpm install

# or using yarn
yarn install

# or using npm
npm install

Start : Development

To develop and run your application, you need to run following command.
Start electron application for development :

yarn start

Lint : Development

To lint application source code using ESLint via this command :

yarn lint

Package : Production

Customize and package your Electron app with OS-specific bundles (.app, .exe etc)

yarn package

Make : Production

Making is a way of taking your packaged application and making platform specific distributables like DMG, EXE, or Flatpak files (amongst others).

yarn make

Publish : Production

Publishing is a way of taking the artifacts generated by the make command and sending them to a service somewhere for you to distribute or use as updates. (This could be your update server or an S3 bucket)

yarn publish

Packager & Makers Configuration

This provides an easy way of configuring your packaged application and making platform specific distributables like DMG, EXE, or Flatpak files.

This configurations file is available in :

tools/forge/forge.config.js

For further information, you can visit Electron Forge Configuration