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React, but in an Electron Fiddle
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>Hello World!</title>
<script src="https://unpkg.com/babel-standalone@6/babel.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="hello-example"></div>
<script type="text/jsx" src="renderer.js">
</script>
</body>
</html>
// Modules to control application life and create native browser window
const {app, BrowserWindow} = require('electron')
// Keep a global reference of the window object, if you don't, the window will
// be closed automatically when the JavaScript object is garbage collected.
let mainWindow
function createWindow () {
// Create the browser window.
mainWindow = new BrowserWindow({
width: 800,
height: 600,
webPreferences: {
nodeIntegration: true
}
})
// and load the index.html of the app.
mainWindow.loadFile('index.html')
// Open the DevTools.
// mainWindow.webContents.openDevTools()
// Emitted when the window is closed.
mainWindow.on('closed', function () {
// Dereference the window object, usually you would store windows
// in an array if your app supports multi windows, this is the time
// when you should delete the corresponding element.
mainWindow = null
})
}
// This method will be called when Electron has finished
// initialization and is ready to create browser windows.
// Some APIs can only be used after this event occurs.
app.on('ready', createWindow)
// Quit when all windows are closed.
app.on('window-all-closed', function () {
// On OS X it is common for applications and their menu bar
// to stay active until the user quits explicitly with Cmd + Q
if (process.platform !== 'darwin') {
app.quit()
}
})
app.on('activate', function () {
// On OS X it's common to re-create a window in the app when the
// dock icon is clicked and there are no other windows open.
if (mainWindow === null) {
createWindow()
}
})
// In this file you can include the rest of your app's specific main process
// code. You can also put them in separate files and require them here.
const React = require('react')
const ReactDOM = require('react-dom')
class HelloMessage extends React.Component {
render() {
return (
<div>
Hello {this.props.name}
</div>
);
}
}
ReactDOM.render(
<HelloMessage name="Electron" />,
document.getElementById('hello-example')
);
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A nice little gist to kick-off React x Electron gist proof-of-concepts

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This does not work for latest version due to contextIsolation. How to fix that?

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