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electron-vite
Next generation Electron build tooling based on Vite
Documentation | Getting Started | create-electron
Features
- ⚡️ Inherit all the benefits of Vite and use the same way as Vite.
- 📦The main process, renderers and preload scripts are all built with Vite.
- 🛠The main process, renderers and preload scripts Vite configuration combined into one file.
- 💡Pre-configured for Electron, don't worry about configuration.
- 🚀HMR for renderer processes.
Usage
Install
npm i electron-vite -D
Development & Build
In a project where electron-vite
is installed, you can use electron-vite
binary directly with npx electron-vite
or add the npm scripts to your package.json
file like this:
{
"scripts": {
"start": "electron-vite preview",
"dev": "electron-vite dev",
"prebuild": "electron-vite build"
}
}
Configuring
When running electron-vite
from the command line, electron-vite will automatically try to resolve a config file named electron.vite.config.js
inside project root. The most basic config file looks like this:
// electron.vite.config.js
export default {
main: {
// vite config options
},
preload: {
// vite config options
},
renderer: {
// vite config options
}
}
Use HMR in Renderer
In order to use the renderer process HMR, you need to use the environment variables
to determine whether the window browser loads a local html file or a local URL.
function createWindow() {
// Create the browser window
const mainWindow = new BrowserWindow({
width: 800,
height: 600,
webPreferences: {
preload: path.join(__dirname, '../preload/index.js')
}
})
// Load the remote URL for development or the local html file for production
if (!app.isPackaged && process.env['ELECTRON_RENDERER_URL']) {
mainWindow.loadURL(process.env['ELECTRON_RENDERER_URL'])
} else {
mainWindow.loadFile(path.join(__dirname, '../renderer/index.html'))
}
}
Getting Started
Clone the electron-vite-boilerplate or use the create-electron tool to scaffold your project.
npm init @quick-start/electron
Contribution
See Contributing Guide.
License
MIT © alex.wei