Angular Electron
Ultra-fast bootstrapping with Angular and Electron :speedboat:
Overview
Angular 19 and Electron 36 come together in an exciting package intended for developers looking to create modern desktop applications using TypeScript and SASS. This combination offers a seamless integration that allows for quick development and testing with hot reloading features, which can significantly speed up the development process. With support for multiple platforms including Windows, macOS, and Linux, this project is set to enhance productivity and developer experience.
The structure of the project, utilizing a dual package.json system, optimizes the final build while keeping the application maintainable. By supporting Angular, developers can leverage familiar tools and frameworks in their desktop applications, making it an appealing choice for many.
Features
- Hot Reloading: Quickly see your changes reflected in the application without needing to restart the whole Electron process, enhancing development efficiency.
- Cross-Platform Support: Package your application to run seamlessly on Linux, Windows, and macOS with minimal adjustments.
- Testing Integration: Execute tests easily using Jest and Playwright, ensuring your application runs smoothly through automated tests.
- Angular CLI Compatibility: Utilize Angular's CLI for generating components and manage your dependencies effectively, keeping your workflow streamlined.
- Structured Project Layout: Follow a clean, structured approach with separate folders for Electron's main process and Angular's renderer process, simplifying code management.
- Third-Party Library Support: Easily import NodeJS core libraries and web libraries, allowing for a rich set of features and functionalities in your application.
- NPM Dependency Management: A recommendation to use npm over yarn ensures compatibility and smooth builds, sidestepping common package management issues.
- Developer Tools Control: Ability to enable or disable developer tools through configuration, providing flexibility based on development needs.
- Angular
Angular is a TypeScript-based open-source framework by Google for building dynamic single-page applications and cross-platform mobile apps with MVC architecture and a rich set of features.
- SCSS
SCSS is a preprocessor scripting language that extends the capabilities of CSS by adding features such as variables, nesting, and mixins. It allows developers to write more efficient and maintainable CSS code, and helps to streamline the development process by reducing repetition and increasing reusability.
- Eslint
ESLint is a linter for JavaScript that analyzes code to detect and report on potential problems and errors, as well as enforce consistent code style and best practices, helping developers to write cleaner, more maintainable code.
- Typescript
TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript, providing optional static typing, classes, interfaces, and other features that help developers write more maintainable and scalable code. TypeScript's static typing system can catch errors at compile-time, making it easier to build and maintain large applications.
- Webpack
Webpack is a popular open-source module bundler for JavaScript applications that bundles and optimizes the code and its dependencies for production-ready deployment. It can also be used to transform other types of assets such as CSS, images, and fonts.
