status-electron/README.md

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!!! THIS REPO IS OUTDATED AND NOT SUPPORTED

You can find Status Desktop sources here https://github.com/status-im/react-native-desktop and here https://github.com/status-im/status-react

status-electron

Status ELECTRON (React Native Web and Electron)

Checkout https://github.com/status-im/status-react/tree/feature/status-electron branch into status-react folder

You should have status-react and status-electron in the same directory

+-- status-dev-folder
|   +-- status-react // status-react repo (https://github.com/status-im/status-react) `feature/status-electron` branch
|   +-- status-electron // this repo

Make simlink to resources folder

ln -s /Users/*/status-dev-folder/status-react/resources /Users/*/status-dev-folder/status-electron/resources

Requirements

  • leiningen 2.6.x +
  • node v8.x.x (important to have exactly 8 version not 7 and not 9)
  • electron v1.8.2-beta.3 +

Project Directory

see your app dir. looks like

.
+-- README.md
+-- app
|   +-- dev // development mode dir
|   |   +-- index.html // entry html file
|   |   +-- js
|   |   |   +-- main.js
|   |   +-- package.json // for Desktop app
|   +-- prod // production mode dir
|       +-- index.html // entry html file
|       +-- js
|       |   +-- main.js
|       +-- package.json // for Desktop app
+-- package.json // for Compile
+-- project.clj // compile settings desktop app
+-- resources
+-- src
|   +-- status_desktop
|       +-- core.cljs // ClojureScript for Electron in here
+-- src_front
|   +--status_desktop_front
|      +-- core.cljs //  Status ClojureScript enter point in here
+-- src_front_profile
    +--status_desktop_front
       +-- dev
       |   +-- init.cljs
       +-- prod
           +-- init.cljs

Usage

step 1

Install electron If not already installed

npm install -g electron@beta

Install npm modules

npm install

Check node version

node -v it should be 8.x.x if not switch to 8.x.x version n 8.9.1

step 2

run cljsbuild lein desktop-once.

$ lein desktop-once

Compiling ClojureScript.
Compiling "app/js/cljsbuild-main.js" from ["src"]...
Successfully compiled "app/js/cljsbuild-main.js" in 10.812 seconds.
...
Successfully compiled "app/dev/js/front.js" in 10.588 seconds.

step 3

You can run Desktop application.

development mode

development mode use figwheel. run alias desktop-figwheel. before run application. Open other terminal window.

$ lein desktop-figwheel

and you can run Electron(Atom-Shell) app.

On OS X:

$ electron app/dev

On Linux:

$ ./electron/electron app/dev

On Windows:

$ .\electron\electron.exe app/dev

production mode

you can run Electron(Atom-Shell) app.

On OS X:

$ electron app/prod

On Linux:

$ ./electron/electron app/prod

On Windows:

$ .\electron\electron.exe app/prod

Package App

(If not already installed Electron-packager.)

$ npm install -g electron-packager

run command

for OSX

$ lein desktop-app-osx

for OSX app store

$ desktop-app-store

for windows 32bit app

$ desktop-app-win32

for windows 64bit app

$ desktop-app-win64

for linux

$ desktop-app-linux

Aliases

you can use aliases in project directory.

$ lein desktop-figwheel      # start figwheel
$ lein desktop-once          # build JavaScript for develop 
$ lein desktop-prod          # build JavaScript for production

Contact us

Feel free to email us at support@status.im or better yet, join our Riot.

License

Licensed under the Mozilla Public License v2.0