desktop-angular-with-electron.md

Angular on the Desktop with Electron

• Electron API Demo for great examples of OS interop.
  https://github.com/electron/electron-api-demos
• Not many options for integrating Angular with Electron.

Toolkit

• Not totally solid yet; needs more work.
• Install electron-angular-toolkit into the project development dependencies.
• Run electron-angular-toolkit prepare to integrate electron with the Angular project.
  • Updates packages and creates src/electron/electron.js as the entry point.

Processes

• Renderer process handles running the "web page" and Main process handles the "back end".
• Inter-process communication is through IPC.
  • Main process handles event requests for OS stuff from the renderer.
• Application lifecycle events can be handled in the main process.