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ElAn-CLI

What is ElAn?

Tired of setting up everything up from scratch when creating your new Electron/Angular application? ElAn is here to help you with the whole process because it's the all-in-one solution for creating Electron applications with Angular front-end!

ElAn is an automation CLI script that setups Electron application with Angular front-end, helps running development envirnoment and simplifies build and package process. And you don't need to remember all available options because most of the process is navigated through interactive menu.

Installation

Install ElAn as global dependency:

npm install -g elan-cli

If you're installing under linux and you get "Error: EACCES: permission denied, mkdtemp ...", install like this:

npm install -g elan-cli --unsafe-perm=true --allow-root

Usage

You can use following commands:

elan init your-project-name - creates a new project and setups it

elan serve ?project-name - starts dev environment so you can develop your app

elan build ?project-name - builds the app for production

elan help ?command - displays help on commands

elan version - displays versions of globaly installed ElAn, Electron and Angular CLI or sets version of the local ElAn project

For more information type elan help in the console

Working functionality

(tested only on Windows 10 and Ubuntu 18.04)

Creation of a project with elan init ?project-name
Serving in development mode with elan serve ?project-name
Building with elan build ?project-name
Support for multi-project Angular front-end
Electron TypeScript support
Initialize Electron template. For now there are only two - vanilla JS and TypeScript.