Before beginning, be sure to change your working directory to the scope-f18 repository. Once you’re inside the repository, change directory once again to the lesson-6 folder. We'll be using the application that you completed in Lesson 5 to demonstrate how you can package your application for distribution. To begin, run a quick npm install to be sure that Node is properly setup.
This week, we’ll be working on packaging up your Electron application in order to allow easy sharing and use of your new software. To do this, we’ll be using the electron-packager tool.
To start, run npm install electron-packager -g which will install from node package manager.
There are two ways to package our application with electron-packager. The first of those is done via the command-line interface. You must run the command:
electron-packager <location of project> <name of project> <platform> <architecture> <electron version> <optional options>Where: The location of the project is simply the root directory of the project (i.e. .../lesson-6) The name of the project is a cool title that will be attached to the final package The platform determines which devices will be able to run the package. We’d recommend all for use on Windows, Mac, or Linux. The architecture determines which processing environment the program will be built for. Again, all is recommended to be interchangeable between 32-bit and 64-bit processors. The electron version specifies which version of electron you’ll use (latest now is 2.0.7).
So, an example packaging command may be (from the lesson-6 directory):
cd starter-code
npm install
cd ..
electron-packager starter-code -all --electron-version=2.0.7