Vite + Electron + React + Material-UI Template

This is a skeleton template for easily creating React-based Electron projects.

It is configured to experience fast development and build speed using Vite bundler. As a bonus, it includes several React utilities and layout configurations.

Advantages of use

• ✅ You can build immediately without any presets, so you can develop quickly.
• ✅ It is being maintained quickly to be compatible with the latest React and Electron, as well as many modules.
• ✅ There is no need to worry about layout and data management by using various additional templates.

Features

• ⚡️ Rapid development through hot-reload
• ⚡️ Cross-platform development and build support
• ⚡️ Support for automated application testing
• ⚡️ TypeScript support
• ⚡️ Multilingual support
• ⚡️ Support for themes (dark & light)
• ⚡️ Basic layout manager
• ⚡️ Global state management through the Redux store
• ⚡️ Quick support through the GitHub community

Components

• For compile & build

  • vite
  • electron
  • electron-builder (Package builder)

• For web development framework

  • react
  • react-dom
  • react-router-dom
  • @redux/toolkit & react-redux (Global state management)
  • typescript

• For CSS Design

  • @mui/material (Material Design CSS Framework)
  • @emotion/react

• For Multilingual language support

  • i18next (Multilingual translation)

• For development utils

  • eslint (Code syntax checking)
  • eslint-plugin-react-hooks
  • prettier

• For testing

  • playwright

Installation

You can easily clone a repository with just the npm command. (Recommend)

$ npm init retron

OR, Click Use this template to instantly create your own project.

OR, Clone this repo using below command.

$ git clone https://github.com/jooy2/retron <PROJECT_NAME>

Then, install the dependency module.

# via npm
$ npm i

# via yarn (https://yarnpkg.com)
$ yarn install

# via pnpm (https://pnpm.io)
$ pnpm i

You can test your project in the development environment using the following command:

$ npm run dev

Build

Retron can build targeting Windows 10 or later, macOS 14.x or later, and major Linux distributions.

# For Windows (.exe, .appx)
$ npm run build:win

# For macOS (.dmg)
$ npm run build:mac

# For Linux (.rpm, .deb, .snap)
$ npm run build:linux

The built packages can be found in release/{version} location.

Build settings for projects that use Native Node modules

For projects that use the Native Node Module, add the following script to your package.json: When installing dependencies, electron-builder will take care of any modules that require rebuilding.

{
  "scripts": {
    "postinstall": "electron-builder install-app-deps"
  }
}

What do I need to do for a multi-platform build?

macOS is recommended if you want to build multiple platforms simultaneously on one platform. Because it can be configured with just a few very simple settings.

You can perform multi-platform builds at once with the following command. Alternatively, you can just do it for the OS you want via the individual build commands above.

$ npm run build

Looking for Electron templates made with Vue?

Also check out the Vutron project, which consists of Vite + Vue 3 + Vuetify + Electron.

https://github.com/jooy2/vutron

Contribute

You can report issues on GitHub Issue. You can also request a pull to fix bugs and add frequently used features.

License

Copyright © 2021-2024 Jooy2 <[email protected]> Released under the MIT license.