README.md

Sunbeam-Weather-App

It is an Angular-Electron App which give you information about Weather Forecast.

Prerequisites

Be sure to have Node >= 8.0 and NPM >= 5 installed on your computer/server

You can download NodeJS by following this https://nodejs.org/en/, take the LTS version. The installer will install Node and Npm.

check node version

node -v

check npm version

npm -v

Clone App

https://github.com/AtulBisht/Sunbeam-Weather-App.git

Install dependencies with npm

npm install

To Run app in ELECTRON

npm run electron

Easily test your app locally while developing

ng serve

electron-builder to package and build distributable electron app

Link :- https://www.electron.build/

A complete solution to package and build a ready for distribution Electron app for macOS, Windows and Linux with “auto update”

-> If you want to run electron-builder through npm, install the package locally:

npm install --save-dev electron-builder

-> Set productName, version, author, copyright, appID, Output folder, target, Icon in package.json

{

"name": "sunbeam_weather_app",

"description": "Weather app",

"productName": "Sunbeam-Weather-App",

"version": "0.0.0",

"license": "MIT",

"author": "Atul Bisht [email protected]",

"copyright": "© 2018, nerdAppLabs software solution",

"main": "main.js",

"build": {

"appId": "com.nerdAppLabs.sunbeam-weather-app",
"directories": {
  "output": "app"
},
"mac": {
  "category": "weather.app-category.weather",
  "target":"pkg", //target :- dmg (default), mas, zip, 7z, tar.xz, tar.lz 
  "icon": "build/SWA.icns"
},
"win": {
  "target":"zip", //target :- nsis (default), appx, 7z, tar.xz, tar.lz, tar.gz, tar.bz2
  "icon": "build/SWA.ico"
},
"linux":{
  "target":"snap", //target :- AppImage (default), 7z, zip, tar.xz, tar.lz, tar.gz, tar.bz2
  "icon":"build/SWA.png"
},

}

}

-> Edit the scripts section of your package.json:

"scripts": {

"build-ml": "electron-builder -ml",

"build-mac": "electron-builder  --mac",

"build-linux": "electron-builder  --linux",

"build-win": "electron-builder  --win",

}, "devDependencies": {

"electron": "*",

"electron-builder": "*"

}

-> Run app in Electron

npm run electron

To package and build distributable electron app for macOS and Linux

npm run build-ml

-> To package and build distributable electron app for Windows

npm run build-win

Note: If you are using macOS to create distributable file for windows install wine.

-> To package and build distributable electron app for MacOS

npm run build-mac

-> To package and build distributable electron app for Linux

npm run build-linux