README.md

this project goal is to test electron js

folowing this tutorial from electron js website

chapter one : prerequisites

node -v v22.9.0

npm -v 10.8.3

chapter two : Building your First App

mkdir my-electron-app && cd my-electron-app
npm init

put entry point as main.js

npm install electron --save-dev

got package.json updated with :

  "devDependencies": {
    "electron": "^33.0.2"
  }

adding .gitignore from node template

adding a main.js with a console.log

adding "start": "electron .", in scripts section of package.json (it will look for the main script of the current directory)

command npm run start run Electron and show the log that I wrote in main.js

create a index.html file and replacing main.js code to load html page in a browserWindow

npm run start now open a window with the content of index.html

adding a .vscode/launch.json for debug

chapter three : Using Preload Scripts

addding a preload script to expose node, chrome versions, and electron versions in variables, loading it in the window and injecting them throught the index DOM using renderer.js

adding a method 'ping' called throuht ipcRenderer via preload

chapter four : Adding Features

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chapter five : Packaging Your Application

installing Electron Forge's CLI :

npm install --save-dev @electron-forge/cli
npx electron-forge import

after those two commands, app has been converted to a Electron Forge format.

to create a distribuable : npm run make

it produce a out directory with my-electron-app-1.0.0 Setup.exe in make directory

and also deprecationWarnings :

(node:3144) [DEP0174] DeprecationWarning: Calling promisify on a function that returns a Promise is likely a mistake.

for me, after installing the application using the my-electron-app-1.0.0 Setup.exe from out/make the applications is installed in :

C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Local\my_electron_app