Electron Projects

Setting up conditional loading

Let's review the application startup process:

1. If you switch to the package.json file, the start script will looks as follows:

      "start": "electron ."

As you already know, Node.js provides us with access to environment variables so that the application can perform different behaviors, depending on external parameters.

2. Supporting the DEBUG parameter is a standard practice:

      {        "start": "DEBUG=true electron ."      }

For Windows users, the start script should be slightly different:

      {        "start": "SET DEBUG=true && electron ."      }

3. In this case, our set of scripts will look similar to the following:

      {        "scripts": {          "ng": "ng",          "serve": "ng serve",          "start": "DEBUG=true electron .",          "build": "ng build", "build.prod": "ng ...