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Consistent Testing electron-settings

Consistent Testing electron-settings

TL;DR: Delete the settings file before starting the test. Today I implemented a simple wrapper over the electron-settings functionality to gibe me access to a set of properties via get/set methods. My scenario is simple: I have a property named path.backup and I want to be able

Make Electron Work with Sqlite3

The other day I tried to integrate knex with a SQLITE3 back-end. Unfortunately, the instant I've tried to instantiate knex, I've got a lot of errors. After getting rid of them, I found that I can't get sqlite3 to work at all, even though

Make Electron work with Knex.js

To make my life easier (and because I hate writing SQL statements), I thought of installing an ORM. After some search, I've decided to use knex. Unfortunately, the moment I integrated it into my app, webpack started generating errors like: ERROR in ./~/knex/lib/dialects/maria/index.js

Electron and WebPack - Live Reloads

I wanted to create a skeleton with Electron, Angular 2, capable of live reload while in development. I've settled on the following framework: * Electron (d'oh!) * Angular 2 * Angular CLI (because it makes it easy to generate boilerplate code) * SASS (SCSS in fact) * Webpack 2 and * Babel

Electron App. Why angular-cli?

The decision has been made for me since I'm new to Angular in general and the CLI offers a package deal particularly where code generation and initial package management is concerned. There's also the boon of webpack, which is used as engine. Although the balance tilts

Debug Electron in VS Code

TL;DR: You need to follow the server (electron) client (VS code debugger) approach. Be aware of OS specifics! So far, my approach towards development/debugging would be to write some code, test it, rewrite, test... all with a bunch of console.log() statements. That's not efficient at

Rise and Fall of WebPack Dev Server in My Project

Rise and Fall of WebPack Dev Server in My Project

Disclaimer: This is a log of my journey developing an electron app. I'm working at a small electron app and I was experimenting with webpack-dev-server, so I can try to do live reloads. First, I've started the app as a web app (no electron dependencies whatsoever)