electron-packager-example

This is an electron example that builds installers for different machine architecture and opperations system with the help of the community made Electron-builder for react apps.

This example builds for: Windows(32 bit and 64 bit) Linux(32 bit, 64 bit and armv7) MacOS(64 bit)

How to build:

To make all the possible version write: npm run-script buildIntallers This builds the installers defined in the build section in package.json However depending on your OS you may need to install extra dependencies.

To specify the OS and architecture to build for:

1. install Electron-builder globally: npm install -g electron-builder

2. then type: electron-builder --linux deb --x64

This makes an installer for linux distributions with the .deb pakcage running 64-bit architecture. For the full list of possible configurations see Electron-builders website

note:

only the Linux installers(armv7l) is tested.

Todo:

Make pipeline for generating all possible installers on github-actions.

Make the electron app start and update changes in development mode.

Sign windows executable.

Test the different versions.