Electron: From Beginner to Pro: Learn to Build Cross Platform Desktop Applications using Github's Electron

© Chris Griffith, Leif Wells 2017

Chris Griffith and Leif Wells, Electron: From Beginner to Pro, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-2826-5_15

15. Building Your Application

Chris Griffith¹  and Leif Wells²

(1)San Diego, California, USA

(2)Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Now is it time to turn our attention to how to transform your Electron application into one that can be easily be distributed. Throughout this book, we have simply been using the stand-alone version of Electron and having it load our collection of HTML and JavaScript files. The de facto solution to take your project’s files and create a stand-alone native application is a, npm package aptly called electron-builder. In this chapter, we will look at configuring our application so we can build our ...