Is there any simple way I can setup an app with Electron-Forge and React? I am usin the webpack template but don't know what to do to get jsx to work. I have the react stuff in renderer.js
Is there any simple way I can setup an app with Electron-Forge and React? I am usin the webpack template but don't know what to do to get jsx to work. I have the react stuff in renderer.js
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- 1 Well, I didn't wan't to use typescript and I figured it out. – I'veGotRoot Commented Jun 20, 2020 at 23:25
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Reset to default 16I figured it out,
yarn create electron-app test --template=webpack
cd test
Then I installed babel with:
yarn add @babel/core babel-loader @babel/preset-env @babel/preset-react --d
and react with:
yarn add react react-dom
Created a .babelrc in project root with the following code:
{"presets": ["@babel/preset-env", "@babel/preset-react"]}
and added the following to webpack.rules.js:
{
test: /\.(js|jsx)$/,
exclude: /node_modules/,
use: {
loader: "babel-loader"
}
}
changed renderer.js to renderer.jsx and changed stuff in package.json from this:
"@electron-forge/plugin-webpack",
{
"mainConfig": "./webpack.main.config.js",
"renderer": {
"config": "./webpack.renderer.config.js",
"entryPoints": [
{
"html": "./src/index.html",
"js": "./src/renderer.js",
"name": "main_window"
}
]
}
}
to this:
"@electron-forge/plugin-webpack",
{
"mainConfig": "./webpack.main.config.js",
"renderer": {
"config": "./webpack.renderer.config.js",
"entryPoints": [
{
"html": "./src/index.html",
"js": "./src/renderer.jsx",
"name": "main_window"
}
]
}
}
and finally replaced renderer.jsx with this:
import './index.css';
import React from 'react';
import ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
console.log('Loaded React.');
ReactDOM.render(<div>Test.</div>, document.getElementById('root'));
and replaced index.html with this:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>Hello World!</title>
</head>
<body>
<div id="root"></div>
</body>
</html>
1.Create Webpack template using
yarn create electron-app my-new-app --template=webpack && cd my-new-app
2.Install dependencies
yarn add --dev @babel/core @babel/preset-react babel-loader
3.Add the following to webpack.rules.js
{
test: /\.jsx?$/,
use: {
loader: 'babel-loader',
options: {
exclude: /node_modules/,
presets: ['@babel/preset-react']
}
}
},
resolve: {
extensions: [".js", ".jsx"]
},
4.Add React and React-dom
yarn add react react-dom
For more details refer electron-forge documentation