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Cross-platform Desktop Application Development: Electron, Node, NW.js, and React
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Cross-platform Desktop Application Development: Electron, Node, NW.js, and React

by Dmitry Sheiko
July 2017
Intermediate to advanced
300 pages
5h 43m
English
Packt Publishing
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Packaging

Well, we have completed our application and that is the time to think about distribution. As you understand, asking our users to install Node.js and type npm start from the command line will not be friendly. Users will expect a package that can be started as simply as any other software. So, we have to bundle our application along with NW.js for every target platform. Here, nwjs-builder comes in handy (https://github.com/evshiron/nwjs-builder).

So, we install the npm i -D nwjs-builder tool and add a task to the manifest:

./package.json

//... "scripts": {     "package": "nwb nwbuild -v 0.21.3-sdk ./app -o ./dist  -p linux64, win32,osx64", 

    //...     }, //...

Here, we specified three target platforms (-p linux64, win32,osx64) at once and ...

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ISBN: 9781788295697