Electron: creating portable windows application
How to create a portable windows application without an installer from an electron project:
Clone the electron-quick-start repo: git clone https://github.com/electron/electron-quick-start yarn Make your application - probably edit main.js to navigate to some URL yarn add electron-packager Edit package.json - update the ’name’ and add a new script ‘packager’:
{
"name": "my-app-name",
...
"scripts": {
"start": "electron .",
"packager": "electron-packager ./ --platform=win32"
}
}
’npm start’ will bring up the application ’npm run packager’ will package the app for windows. You will see a new directory ‘my-app-name-win32-x64’ in the top directory of the project, with a my-app-name.exe