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Create Electron boilerplate #1

Closed baltpeter closed 2 years ago

baltpeter commented 2 years ago
baltpeter commented 2 years ago

Setup Electron with TypeScript.

There's a whole bunch of templates that we could use to setup the project (like https://github.com/electron-react-boilerplate/electron-react-boilerplate or https://github.com/electron-userland/electron-webpack) but I much prefer setting up projects myself, to really understand what things are doing and be able to configure it exactly as I want. Also, I really don't want to have to use Webpack. :D

The next choice is for a bundling/packaging/build tool for Electron. The options for that are basically https://github.com/electron-userland/electron-builder and https://github.com/electron-userland/electron-forge. Both offer similar features and seem mature and well supported. Electron Forge seems to lean towards a create-react-app-like approach, whereas with electron-builder you have to (or can, depending on how you want to frame it :D) configure everything yourself. Also, electron-builder seems to have more features and just seems… nicer to me on first glance. I'll go with that.

baltpeter commented 2 years ago

What is the recommended way of accessing native functions from the app code these days?

Electron's documentation has actually vastly improved since I wrote my bachelor's thesis and focuses heavily on security these days! The "Processes in Electron" chapter explains the approach we should (and will) use really well. Basically:

I'll even give enabling the sandbox a try. Seems like that is actually viable these days.

I've also gone through the security checklist and implemented everything that applies to us.

baltpeter commented 2 years ago

Closed in 8a5c9f061d73921a1c939f1772c5b39ba044abf4 and 958ade285f11672d9db0c830ea06f19d3694192a.

I've opted to use Parcel 2 for the build system. The ergonomics of that are truly excellent! I didn't have to do anything and it genuinely just worked. Wow.