webpack-electron-packager

Build Electron apps without the bloat

Webpack plugin to build Electron apps. It's particularly useful to package Electron Apps which only contain required modules and assets.

Features

• Brings electron-packager to your Webpack dev flow.
• Supports Webpack externals.

Usage

Documentation: Using loaders

npm install webpack-electron-packager -D

And then, in your webpack config:

const ElectronPackager = require("webpack-electron-packager");
module.exports = {
    plugins: [
        new ElectronPackager({
          dir: "/path/to/app",
          arch: "x64",
          platform: "linux",
        })
    ]
}

Options

Plugin accepts all options in electron-packager. They can be passed in either CamelCase (e.g.: buildVersion) or with hyphens (e.g.: build-version).

Plugin also adds the following:

externals

Sometimes, you may need to have libraries as externals. If that's the case, pass the name of the module or an array of modules as externals.

const ElectronPackager = require("webpack-electron-packager");
module.exports = {
    plugins: [
        new ElectronPackager({
          ...
          externals: "my-npm-package"
        })
    ]
}

Tests

npm test