There is an issue with yarn and node_modules that are only used in electron on the backend when the application is built by the packager. Please use npm as dependencies manager.

If you want to generate Angular components with Angular-cli , you MUST install @angular/cli in npm global context.
Please follow Angular-cli documentation if you had installed a previous version of angular-cli.

npm install -g @angular/cli

To build for development

in a terminal window -> npm start
in another terminal window -> npm run electron:serve

Voila! You can use your Angular + Electron app in a local development environment with hot reload !

The application code is managed by main.ts. In this sample, the app runs with a simple Electron window and "Developer Tools" is open.
The Angular component contains an example of Electron and NodeJS native lib import. See Use NodeJS Native libraries charpter if you want to import other native libraries in your project.
You can desactivate "Developer Tools" by commenting win.webContents.openDevTools(); in main.ts.

To build for production

Using development variables (environments/index.ts) : npm run electron:dev
Using production variables (environments/index.prod.ts) : npm run electron:prod

Your built files are in the /dist folder.

Included Commands

Command	Description
`npm run start:web`	Execute the app in the brower
`npm run electron:linux`	Builds your application and creates an app consumable on linux system
`npm run electron:windows`	On a Windows OS, builds your application and creates an app consumable in windows 32/64 bit systems
`npm run electron:mac`	On a MAC OS, builds your application and generates a `.app` file of your application that can be run on Ma

Browser mode

Maybe you want to execute the application in the browser (WITHOUT HOT RELOAD ACTUALLY...) ? You can do it with npm run start:web.
Note that you can't use Electron or NodeJS native libraries in this case. Please check providers/electron.service.ts to watch how conditional import of electron/Native libraries is done.

Execute E2E tests

You can find end-to-end tests in /e2e folder.

You can run tests with the command lines below :

in a terminal window -> First, start a web server on port 4200 : npm run start:web
in another terminal window -> Then, launch Protractor (E2E framework): npm run e2e

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