sindresorhus / grunt-electron

Package Electron apps

grunt-electron

Package Electron apps using electron-packager

Issues should be reported on the electron-packager issue tracker.

Please think hard if you really need grunt for this. A simple vanilla node build script would probably be better.

This is mostly intended for those that have an existing grunt setup and want to integrate Electron app packaging.

Install

$ npm install --save-dev grunt-electron

Usage

require('load-grunt-tasks')(grunt); // npm install --save-dev load-grunt-tasks

grunt.initConfig({
	electron: {
		macosBuild: {
			options: {
				name: 'Fixture',
				dir: 'app',
				out: 'dist',
				version: '1.3.5',
				platform: 'darwin',
				arch: 'x64'
			}
		}
	}
});

grunt.registerTask('default', ['electron']);

Options

See the electron-packager options.

In addition you need to supply the name of your app and the dir where your app is located.

License

MIT © Sindre Sorhus

grunt-electron's Issues

Error building windows installer, latest version

I'm trying to use the latest version with Electron 0.37.6, node 6.1.0, npm 3.8.6 but whatever i try it keeps give me this error:

Running "create-windows-installer:x64" (create-windows-installer) task
Warning: Cannot read property 'link' of undefined Use --force to continue.

I was trying it with Windows 7 which worked well until i updated to latest and OSX with wine

Question: How to archive the whole project except certain files?

require('load-grunt-tasks')(grunt); // npm install --save-dev load-grunt-tasks

grunt.initConfig({
    electron: {
        macosBuild: {
            options: {
                name: 'Fixture',
                dir: 'app',
                out: 'dist',
                version: '1.3.5',
                platform: 'darwin',
                arch: 'x64',
                asar: true,
                'asar-unpack': 'app/test/**'
            }
        }
    }
});

grunt.registerTask('default', ['electron']);

It doesn't work.

Docummentation

It would help a lot to have a full documentation of the available options. I had to dig through code to find this out:
'electron': {
win32: {
options: {
'version-string': {
ProductName: 'Your App Name'

electron-packager is now 8.0.0

Could you update the dependency (currently ^7.0.0)?

Thanks!

Inheritance with grunt *QUESTION*

Hello, I was wondering if there was a way in grunt to sort of make a "template" of the options so different builds can be shorter. Right now I have something like this

'electron-packager': {
    buildWithIMZ: {
        options: {
            platform        : os.platform(),
            arch            : os.arch(),
            dir             : '.',
            out             : '../gameBuilds/buildWithIMZ',
            name            : artifactIdIMZ,
            executableName  : 'run',
            electronVersion : '1.8.2',
            asar            : true,
            overwrite       : true
        }
    },
    buildWithoutIMZ: {
        options: {
            platform        : os.platform(),
            arch            : os.arch(),
            dir             : '.',
            out             : '../gameBuilds/buildWithoutIMZ',
            name            : artifactIdNonIMZ,
            executableName  : 'run',
            electronVersion : '1.8.2',
            asar            : true,                  
            overwrite       : true
        }

but I'd like for it to be like this:

default: {
options: {
platform : os.platform(),
arch : os.arch(),
dir : '.',
executableName : 'run',
electronVersion : '1.8.2',
asar : true,
overwrite : true
}
},
buildWithIMZ: {
options: {
out : '../gameBuilds/buildWithIMZ',
name : artifactId . '-imz'
}
},
buildWithoutIMZ: {
options: {
out : '../gameBuilds/buildWithoutIMZ',
name : artifactId . '-noimz'
}
}
So that all the tasks do is just look at the rest of the options in the one named default then use what they have inside them. Is this possible or a feature to be?

Specify a version

Hi, I've got this issue

Warning: Must specify version Use --force to continue.

Aborted due to warnings.

While my gruntfile is something like this (in coffee) :

    electron:
      build:
        options:{
          name:'Project',
          version:'0.32.0',
          dir:'app',
          out:'dist',
          plateform:'all',
          arch:'all'
        }