Helping you navigate the streams!
The main application is built with stenciljs. Stencil providers a spiffy framework for building out page components and app architecture with jsx. It's main strength is outputting vanilla web components, which is awesome #usetheplatform #ihatereact.
The component library is the Ionic Framework. Ionic provides a ton of components that are ready to use out of the box like list views, form fields, etc. I've used Ionic for many hybrid mobile apps and love the product and team behind it.
The tool used to build desktop application is Neutralino. It uses the existing web library on the native device instead of bundling Chromium, resulting in much smaler file sizes. This is the first time using this tool, but it seems promising thus far.
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make sure you've run
npm install
to install dependencies -
you will need the
neu
CLI tool in order to build desktop apps -
run
npm run build
to trigger Stencil to output a build into/www
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running
npm run app:run
will run the desktop app on your platform locally, Ctl+C to stop -
if you want to run JUST the stencil app,
npm run start
will do the trick -
to build desktop apps, run
npm run app:build
and the executables will be located in/dist/rowboat