• main.js, index.html
  • in addition to the electron basics, these also include functionality for:
    • responding to custom web protocol
    • creating and listening via a socket.io server
    • getting local os stats to pass to socket.io client
• yarn init -y
• in package.json
  • change index.js to main.js in package.json
  • add

    "build": {
      "appId": "du-hello-electron-builder",
      "mac": {
        "category": "du.app.category.type"
      },
      "protocols": {
        "name": "du-electron-protocol",
        "schemes": [
          "du-scheme"
        ]
      }
    }

  • add:

    "scripts": {
      "start": "electron .",
      "pack": "electron-builder --dir",
      "dist": "electron-builder"
    }

• yarn add -D electron electron-builder
• yarn add os-utils express socket.io
• yarn dist
• installer and standalone exe are in dist dir
• run the installer
• first verify that custom web protocol is working
  • navigate from browser to du-scheme://foo?bar=baz
  • navigate from browser to du-scheme://foo?one=two
• now run web-protocol-react-socket-client to connect to socket server herein