hodgoong / electron-with-react

Minimum setup for React based Electron app development

Electron with React

The purpose of this repo is to provide minimal setup to start an Electron development based on React. It is built based on create-react-app(https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app) and electron-quick-start(https://github.com/electron/electron-quick-start). Some of the works were done based on the tutorial here: https://medium.com/@kitze/%EF%B8%8F-from-react-to-an-electron-app-ready-for-production-a0468ecb1da3.

To launch Electron

$ npm install && npm start

To launch Electron (in WSL)

First install all the dependencies from Command Prompt using below command:

$ npm install

And then do below command in WSL:

$ npm start

To run in the browser (dev)

$ npm run web:dev

To run in the browser (prod)

$ npm run web