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How to build Electron apps with React.

Wachira on December 28, 2019

Introduction I have always had a deep interest in writing Desktop applications. What was holding me off throughout the years was, I wasn...

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Will G • Dec 29 '19

Just started building a react-electron boilerplate for myself this morning. This post answers all my questions. Thank you 🙏🙏

Wachira • Dec 29 '19

Glad to know it helped 😉.

Will G • Dec 29 '19

This might be a noob question but what does the flag combination "-mw" do in "electron-pack": "build -mw" inside the package.json? Did some googling but couldn't find an explanation.

Roman Br. • Dec 29 '19

That's for creating Mac and Win executables.

Will G • Dec 29 '19

Awesome that makes sense. Thank you 🙏

Bruce Martin • Nov 3 '21

I just fixed the problem below by changing script line to this:

"electron-dev": "concurrently \"SET BROWSER=none&&npm run start\" \"wait-on localhost:3000 && electron .\""

This answer was found on stackoverflow.com/questions/587363...

Bruce Martin • Nov 3 '21

I began your instructions and when I got to "Let's run our app" with yarn electron-dev, what I got was this:

$ concurrently 'BROWSER=none yarn start' 'wait-on localhost:3000 && electron .'
[0] ''BROWSER' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
[0] operable program or batch file.
[0] 'BROWSER=none exited with code 1
[2] 'start'' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
[2] operable program or batch file.
[2] start' exited with code 1
[3] ''wait-on' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
[3] operable program or batch file.
[3] 'wait-on exited with code 1
[4] 'http:' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
[4] operable program or batch file.
[4] localhost:3000 exited with code 1
[1/4] Resolving packages...
success Already up-to-date.
[1] yarn exited with code 0
error Command failed with exit code 1.