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I'veGotRoot
I'veGotRoot

Reputation: 341

Electron Forge with react?

Is there any simple way I can setup an app with Electron-Forge and React? I am usin the webpack template but don't know what to do to get jsx to work. I have the react stuff in renderer.js

Upvotes: 8

Views: 8043

Answers (2)

Sathishkumar
Sathishkumar

Reputation: 3733

1.Create Webpack template using

yarn create electron-app my-new-app --template=webpack && cd my-new-app

2.Install dependencies

yarn add --dev @babel/core @babel/preset-react babel-loader

3.Add the following to webpack.rules.js

 {
    test: /\.jsx?$/,
    use: {
      loader: 'babel-loader',
      options: {
        exclude: /node_modules/,
        presets: ['@babel/preset-react']
      }
    }
  },
  resolve: {
    extensions: [".js", ".jsx"]
  },

4.Add React and React-dom

yarn add react react-dom

For more details refer electron-forge documentation

Upvotes: 0

I'veGotRoot
I'veGotRoot

Reputation: 341

I figured it out,

    yarn create electron-app test --template=webpack
    cd test

Then I installed babel with:

    yarn add @babel/core babel-loader @babel/preset-env @babel/preset-react --d

and react with:

    yarn add react react-dom

Created a .babelrc in project root with the following code:

    {"presets": ["@babel/preset-env", "@babel/preset-react"]}

and added the following to webpack.rules.js:

    {
    test: /\.(js|jsx)$/,
    exclude: /node_modules/,
    use: {
      loader: "babel-loader"
    }
  }

changed renderer.js to renderer.jsx and changed stuff in package.json from this:

    "@electron-forge/plugin-webpack",
      {
        "mainConfig": "./webpack.main.config.js",
        "renderer": {
          "config": "./webpack.renderer.config.js",
          "entryPoints": [
            {
              "html": "./src/index.html",
              "js": "./src/renderer.js",
              "name": "main_window"
            }
          ]
        }
      }

to this:

    "@electron-forge/plugin-webpack",
      {
        "mainConfig": "./webpack.main.config.js",
        "renderer": {
          "config": "./webpack.renderer.config.js",
          "entryPoints": [
            {
              "html": "./src/index.html",
              "js": "./src/renderer.jsx",
              "name": "main_window"
            }
          ]
        }
      }

and finally replaced renderer.jsx with this:

    import './index.css';
    import React from 'react';
    import ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
    console.log('Loaded React.');
    ReactDOM.render(<div>Test.</div>, document.getElementById('root'));

and replaced index.html with this:

    <!DOCTYPE html>
    <html>
      <head>
        <meta charset="UTF-8">
        <title>Hello World!</title>
    
      </head>
      <body>
        <div id="root"></div>
      </body>
    </html>

Upvotes: 16

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