meteor-desktop

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Meteor Desktop

aka Meteor Electron Desktop Client

Build desktop apps with Meteor & Electron. Full integration with hot code push implementation.

 cd /your/meteor/app
 meteor npm install --save-dev meteor-desktop
 # you need to have mobile platform added
 meteor --mobile-server=127.0.0.1:3000
 
 # open new terminal

 npm run desktop -- init
 npm run desktop

 # or in one command `npm run desktop -- --init` 

What is this?

This is a complete implementation of integration between Meteor and Electron aiming to achieve the same level of developer experience like Meteor gives. To make it clear from the start, this is a desktop client - it is just like your mobile clients with cordova - but for desktops with Electron. It also features a full hot code push implementation - which means you can release updates the same way you are used to.

Prerequisites

• Meteor >= 1.3.4^*1
• at least basic Electron framework knowledge
• mobile platform added to project^*2

^{*1 1.3.3 is supported if you will install meteor-desktop with npm >= 3 *2 you can always build with --server-only so you do not actually have to have android sdk or xcode to go on with your project}

Documentation

Starting

If you have not run the example from the top of this readme, first you need to scaffold a .desktop dir in which your Electron's main process code lives. To do that run: (assuming npm install --save-dev meteor-desktop did add a desktop entry in the package.json scripts section)

npm run desktop -- init

This will generate an exemplary .desktop dir. Lets tak a look what we can find there:

    assets              <dir>
    import              <dir>
    modules             <dir>
    desktop.js
    settings.json
    squirrelEvents.js