Electron React Webpack Typescript - Boilerplate 2021

ERWT is a minimal boilerplate for writing Desktop Applications using Electron, React, Webpack & TypeScript. This project makes use of latest packages and configurations to serve the best environment for development.

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Custom Window Titlebar & Menu

This project now includes custom Electron Window, Titlebar, Menu Items, Window Controls & application icon etc by default. Menu items and windows controls layout or colors can be customized easily by modifying the misc/window modules. The windows platform buttons are being used by default in the Titlebar.

Menubar can be toggled by pressing ALT key

Core Features

• 📐 Custom Window & Titlebar with Menus
• 🌟 Electron
• 🌀 TypeScript
• ⚛️ React
• 🛶 LESS Loader
• 🎨 CSS Loader
• 📸 Image Loader
• 🆎 Font Loader
• 🧹 ESLint
• 📦 Electron Forge
• 🔱 Webpack & Configuration
• 🧩 Aliases for project paths
• 🔥 Hot Module Replacement (Live Reload)
• 🎁 Package Bundling (Distribution / Release)

Installation

To clone the ERWT boilerplate, you need to run following commands:

Master version of ERWT contains project files in separate context for main and renderer process, uses custom window, custom titlebar & menus.

git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/codesbiome/electron-react-webpack-typescript-2021

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-2021

Install dependencies using Yarn or NPM :

yarn 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