grunt-electron-packager

Grunt task to create packages Electron using electron-packager This is mostly intended for those that have an existing grunt setup and want to integrate Electron app packaging. It allows you to create custom options. This uses the installed version of electron-packager.

Install

$ npm install grunt-electron-packager --save-dev

devDependencies

These dependencies must be installed.

$ npm install grunt --save-dev
$ npm install load-grunt-tasks --save-dev
$ npm install electron --save-dev
$ npm install electron-packager --save-dev

Usage

Use with task-specific options

const os = require('os');
require('load-grunt-tasks')(grunt); // npm install --save-dev load-grunt-tasks
 
  grunt.initConfig({
    'electron-packager': {
      build: {
        options:{
          platform        : os.platform(),
          arch            : os.arch(),
          dir             : './app',
          out             : './build',
          icon            : './app/recursos/icon',
          name            : 'nameBuild',
          ignore          : 'bower.json',
          // set specific version of electron, If it isn't using the electron's version on your deps.
          electronVersion: '1.8.4',
          asar      : true,
          overwrite : true
        }
      },
      buildCustom: {
        options: function (name,platform,arch) {
          return {
            platform ,
            arch,
            dir       : './app',
            out       : './build',
            icon      : './app/recursos/icon',
            name,
            ignore    : 'bower.json',
            asar      : true,
            overwrite : true
          }
        }
      }
    }
  });
  grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-electron-packager');
 
  grunt.registerTask('build', [
    'electron-packager:build',
    'electron-packager:buildCustom:buildCustomName:win32:all'
  ]);

Use with global options for tasks

const os = require('os');
require('load-grunt-tasks')(grunt); // npm install --save-dev load-grunt-tasks
 
  grunt.initConfig({
    'electron-packager': {
      options: {
        asar: true,
        dir: './app',
        icon: './app/recursos/icon',
        ignore: 'bower.json',
        out: './build',
        overwrite: true
      },
      build: {
        name: 'nameBuild-test',
        arch: os.arch(),
        platform: os.platform(),
        // set specific version of electron, If it isn't using the electron's version on your deps.
        electronVersion: '1.8.4',
      },
      buildLinux: {
        name: 'nameBuild-test-linux',
        arch: 'x64',
        platform: 'linux',
      },
      buildWin: {
        name: 'nameBuild-test-win',
        arch: 'x64',
        platform: 'win32',
      },
    }
  });
  grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-electron-packager');
 
  grunt.registerTask('build', [
    'electron-packager',
  ]);

const os = require('os');
require('load-grunt-tasks')(grunt); // npm install --save-dev load-grunt-tasks
 
  grunt.initConfig({
    'electron-packager': {
      options: {
        asar: true,
        dir: './app',
        // icon: './app/recursos/icon',
        ignore: 'bower.json',
        out: './build',
        overwrite: true
      },
      build: {
        arch: os.arch(),
        name: 'nameBuild-test',
        platform: os.platform(),
      },
      buildCustom: function (name, platform, arch) {
        return {
          arch,
          name,
          platform
        };
      }
    }
  });
  grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-electron-packager');
 
  grunt.registerTask('build', [
    'electron-packager',
  ]);

Options

See the electron-packager options.

License

MIT © Marani Matias Ezequiel

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