Template & tooling & packaging

[thisismydesign]

Investigate alternative templates, tooling, and packaging going forward.

The project started on https://github.com/gomorizsolt/minelectreactist, a minimalist version of https://github.com/electron-react-boilerplate/electron-react-boilerplate at the time. We wanted to improve several things, such as:

• https://github.com/gomorizsolt/minelectreactist/issues/17
• https://github.com/gomorizsolt/minelectreactist/issues/23
• absolute imports across the whole codebase

Some time passed and electron-react-boilerplate no longer has a bloated config and v4 is based on TS instead of babel. electron-forge v6 is also a viable option. We're behind the curve and should update.

Also for packaging there are different options: electron-packager (electron-forge) vs electron-builder

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37113815/electron-builder-vs-electron-packager
• https://www.reddit.com/r/electronjs/comments/pek7d5/electronbuilder_vs_electronforge/

The dev setup should be dockerized:

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39930223/how-to-run-an-electron-app-on-docker
• https://trigodev.com/blog/develop-electron-in-docker
• https://github.com/fernavat/electron-react-boilerplate-in-docker
• https://www.electron.build/multi-platform-build#docker