@polleverywhere/electron-app NPM

Electron for slideware

VERY IMPORTANT NOTE - all electron development is on working branches currently. Any projects should attempt to align with the electron-app branch for prototype development.

Semi-Quickstart How To Link singularity locally Running the Electron app Running on Window's VM

Semi-Quickstart

setup local linkings for slideware bindings and singularity

cd <frontend_repo>
git pull
git checkout electron-app
yarn link

How to link singularity locally

cd <singularity>
yarn link @polleverywhere/slideware-bindings
yarn install
yarn start

Running the Electron app

To do development on mac, try:

cd <black-hole repo>
cd packages/electron-app
npm install
npm run start:dev

Running on Window's VM

Prerequisites

Follow setup instructions in win_presenter's Getting Started

Commands

####Make sure you check out the electron-app branch until it's merged

cd <black-hole repo>
git checkout electron-app

Copy electron .exe to win_presenter

Change directories to the electron app in the black-hole repo

cd packages/electron-app
npm install

If you haven't created a docker image, run make This will create a docker container with the capability to build for windows.

make

Otherwise, if just updating typescript and you have already created the docker image.

make copy-js-windows

Start Window's VM with correct win_presenter repo

cd ~/win_presenter
git checkout electron-app
vagrant up win_dev

Optionally, you can ssh into the win_dev vm from your mac terminal directly

vagrant ssh win_dev
cd C:\vagrant
rake run

Environment Variables for debugging

| PE_DEBUG_RENDERERS=true | Will display the inspect tools on all renderers | | PE_SHOW_HIDDEN_RENDERERS | will display all renderers, does not hide windows like the IpcServer, background window, etc. | | PE_PRESENTER_URL | Will point the main window to whatever is stored in the env var |