xod-client-electron

This package is a part of the XOD project.

The package is a thin wrapper around xod-client which lifts it to a ready-to-use desktop based XOD IDE.

It is based on Electron.

Package gotchas

Always rebuild native dependencies from source

For electron-builder we have to provide option:

"buildDependenciesFromSource": true

to properly build serialport native package when creating distributives. Otherwise it would be compiled against wrong version of Node ABI. Following issues have to be solved before we could drop the option:

• https://github.com/EmergingTechnologyAdvisors/node-serialport/issues/1180
• https://github.com/EmergingTechnologyAdvisors/node-serialport/issues/1263

Dedicate dist directory to electron-builder

All other packages use dist/ as a target of transpilation, xod-client-electron is not because dist name used to be reserved for distro packaging. It uses src-babel/ as a target for transpilation.

It have to be fixed since now electron-builder supports directories/output option.

electron-builder support for lerna + yarn-workspaces monorepos

For now the official support is a bit broken, so in the meantime we use our own fork