grunt-electron-builder

Grunt plugin to build your electron app

Getting Started

This plugin requires Grunt ~0.4.5

npm install grunt-electron-builder --save-dev

Once the plugin has been installed, it may be enabled inside your Gruntfile with this line of JavaScript:

grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-electron-builder');

Important note:

The plugin actually only build for Linux and Windows electron app. Mac support should come soon.

The "electron_builder" task

Overview

In your project's Gruntfile, add a section named electron_builder to the data object passed into grunt.initConfig().

grunt.initConfig({
  electron_builder: {
    options: {
      // Task-specific options go here.
      appName: 'My appName',
      dest: './build', // Build folder you want to use. './build' by default
      src: __dirname+'/app', // Relative path to your electron app folder
      platforms: ['linux-x64'] // Array of platforms on which you want your app to run. Actually only support 'linux-64' and 'win32-x64'
    },
    your_target: {
      // Target-specific file lists and/or options go here.
      // Same as options
    },
  },
});

Usage Examples

electron_builder: {
  options: {
    appName: 'My awesome Electron app'
  },
  dist: {
    options: {
      src: __dirname+'/app/',
      dest: './build',
      platforms: ['win32-x64']
    }
  },
},