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Murtjiz Naqvi
Murtjiz Naqvi

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How I made a desktop application for my portfolio using electron JS

1: First of all I am building my react app using npm run build command.
2: After that I run npm i electron --save-dev command that's installs Electron as a development need.
3: After that I run npm i cors express --save command that's installs Express and CORS in your portfolio project.
4: After that i will create a electron-main.js file inside the root and that's place after the src folder.you can view that structure in the given image below
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5:After that inserting that code -->

const { app, BrowserWindow } = require("electron");
const path = require("path");
const express = require("express");
const cors = require("cors");
const localServerApp = express();
const PORT = 8000;
const startLocalServer = (done) => {
  localServerApp.use(express.json({ limit: "100mb" }));
  localServerApp.use(cors());
  localServerApp.use(express.static('./build/'));
  localServerApp.listen(PORT, async () => {
    console.log("Server Started on PORT ", PORT);
    done();
  });
};

function createWindow() {
  const mainWindow = new BrowserWindow({
    width: 800,
    height: 600,
    webPreferences: {
      preload: path.join(__dirname, "preload.js"),
    },
  });

  mainWindow.loadURL("http://localhost:" + PORT);

}

app.whenReady().then(() => {
  startLocalServer(createWindow);

  app.on("activate", function () {
    if (BrowserWindow.getAllWindows().length === 0) createWindow();
  });
});
app.on("window-all-closed", function () {
  if (process.platform !== "darwin") app.quit();
});
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6: After that inserting "electron": "electron ." that command inside the script and inside the package.json file.you can view it in the given image below:

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7: Ater that inserting the "main" to point the electron-main.js file in package.json.you can view it in the given image below:

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8: After that i am running the electron desktop app by running the npm run electron command in terminal. and that will show my portfolio in electron desktop app.You can view it in the given image below:

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