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WIP: Electron turn into desktop app #5

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Follow the tutorial of:
https://www.section.io/engineering-education/desktop-application-with-react/

run export CLOWDER_REMOTE_HOSTNAME=xxxxx, export APIKEY=xxxxx and npm run electron-dev
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To publish a package, we need to read more about:
https://www.electron.build/configuration/pkg

@longshuicy longshuicy changed the title pretty easy to follow Electron turn into desktop app Oct 21, 2021
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lmarini commented Nov 9, 2021

I am wondering if there is a simple way to have a separate app for electron to keep the dependencies for this app smaller. One option is to make a separate package that depends on this package. Even though we are not pushing to npm we could still using something like yarn link for local development like we do for geodashboard.

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lmarini commented Nov 9, 2021

One thing we discussed in one of the developers meeting is to use this for developing and uploader app or a folder sync app to take advantage of the electron extensions. Just having a duplicate of the web application is not going to buy us much, but having a dedicated client for specific activities that shares components with the web client could be very useful.

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I am wondering if there is a simple way to have a separate app for electron to keep the dependencies for this app smaller. One option is to make a separate package that depends on this package. Even though we are not pushing to npm we could still using something like yarn link for local development like we do for geodashboard.

One thing we discussed in one of the developers meeting is to use this for developing and uploader app or a folder sync app to take advantage of the electron extensions. Just having a duplicate of the web application is not going to buy us much, but having a dedicated client for specific activities that shares components with the web client could be very useful.

Agree. Having a duplicate desktop app does not buy us more; versus if we can have a lightweight client (or even mobile client) would be nice.
Maybe I can put this in the back burner but come back to that once we have a specific use case?

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lmarini commented Nov 10, 2021

I am wondering if there is a simple way to have a separate app for electron to keep the dependencies for this app smaller. One option is to make a separate package that depends on this package. Even though we are not pushing to npm we could still using something like yarn link for local development like we do for geodashboard.

One thing we discussed in one of the developers meeting is to use this for developing and uploader app or a folder sync app to take advantage of the electron extensions. Just having a duplicate of the web application is not going to buy us much, but having a dedicated client for specific activities that shares components with the web client could be very useful.

Agree. Having a duplicate desktop app does not buy us more; versus if we can have a lightweight client (or even mobile client) would be nice. Maybe I can put this in the back burner but come back to that once we have a specific use case?

yes definitively not a priority

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