Electrometeor - Desktop Applications w/ Electron + Meteor

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I know there’s been some talk recently about desktop applications with Meteor, so I’ve been working on this project here:

Electrometeor

on GitHub: https://github.com/sircharleswatson/Electrometeor

Let me know what you guys think and if you have any suggestions for improvement!

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Was trying out Electron the other day and one thing I’d like to do is to run the server along with the client. Do you think that would be possible?

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Electrometeor does just that! It works 100% offline :slight_smile:

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Oh great! That solves to much for me. Thank you

I’ll try it out. Anything I can help with? I’m on Windows and building is only Mac now

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If you want to work on a script that will build for windows, that would be awesome :slight_smile: I don’t have a windows machine and my mac doesn’t have enough room left for a windows VM. I really need to get a bigger hard drive lol 128gb is not enough :stuck_out_tongue:

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You can also write shell scripts with JavaScript :wink: https://github.com/arturadib/shelljs. Might be useful to get Windows support without having separate scripts.

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That sounds great! I’ll try that out :slight_smile:

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can I help you with the linux version? Maybe I can also find a windows laptop somewhere.

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this looks very interesting and might save me a bunch of time :smile:

I was just about to start using https://github.com/frozeman/meteor-build-client with electron to build a client version that i can connect to a hosted meteor app i have built already.

So when you say 100% offline, are we able to add a server url like when building a cordova bundle?

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You can definitely connect it to a remote server, but that will require more development. I haven’t added a simple way to do that. (For now at least). I just started a new Full-Time job with Meteor so I haven’t had time to work on Electrometeor lately. I’ll be adding more features as I get settled in to my job.

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@sircharleswatson what would it take for it to connect to a remote server? Maybe one of us can write it

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Its something I need for a project, but ive had to move to using a separate codebase and this http://meteorpedia.com/read/DDP_Clients#JavaScript

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Hmm, I didn’t understand why we need this ?
From a technical point of view, it sounds great. But why ?

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@doedel we dont need it. I was scratching an itch I had and I wanted to share it with others. Most applications do not need it. I just wanted something that would work completely independent of an internet connection.

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@sircharleswatson
Cloud you share with us how to connect with remote server???
I tried to modify the dist.js to build a meteor with remote server url.
exec(meteorCommand + ’ build --directory …/. --server remote_server_url’);
But it was still connected to localhost.

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@sircharleswatson how often do you plan to update this?

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Hey @larry I’ve been very busy with work and a side project I’m working on (As well as the busyness that comes with being married) so I haven’t had any time to work on this. I most likely won’t be updating anything for a while unless its a quick update of the electron version used.

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@sircharleswatson

Thanks for this great package!
One question tho, how would I access modules like the renderer’s IPC module, so I can fire events to Electron’s main process from blaze template?

Is there some kind of API for bridging it?

Edit: oh nevermind, I think I got it. :smiley:

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@awsp
Could you please elaborate how have you done it ? Im trying to use electron in my renderer process but im failing.

const electron = require('electron');

it’s always returning error: couldn’t find module electron