Compatibility with use of browser

[krisvantof]

• I'm submitting a ... [x] bug report [ ] feature request [ ] question about the decisions made in the repository

• Do you want to request a feature or report a bug? Well... There is a Dockerfile for web browsing the dist/ folder with Nginx, so I guess this is a bug. If it was never planned to be used with a browser, then it's a feature request, or a need for advice about what to do to get it.

• What is the current behavior? Using this project with normal web browsing produces a blank page and an error in the browser console: missing "require" dependency.

  ReferenceError: require is not defined [Learn More]

• If the current behavior is a bug, please provide the steps to reproduce and if possible a minimal demo of the problem

  yarn install
  yarn build
  docker build -t dream-starter:latest .
  docker run -p 80:80 dream-starter:latest

  Open a browser at http://localhost

• What is the expected behavior? I am sure that the popup window with ipc won't work. But it would be cool if the non-native features could work also in a browser, or to have at least the layout of the application.

• What is the motivation / use case for changing the behavior? My use case is to share my application with others while it is in development, via the web, to get its global picture.

• Please tell us about your environment: Ubuntu, Firefox, yarn

• Other information (e.g. detailed explanation, stacktraces, related issues, suggestions how to fix, links for us to have context, eg. stackoverflow, gitter, etc) I am a beginner with Electron and Webpack. I guess this issue has something to do with Webpack. Would it be possible to fix this just by adding a webpack configuration for web-browsing?

[colinskow]

Browser support is not a goal of this repo. Electron and browser builds can share a good deal of code, but you really need two separate build systems and two versions of the code for browser support.