next.js/examples/with-electron/readme.md

Electron application example

You can find a detailed documentation about how to build Electron apps with Next.js here!

How to use

Using create-next-app

Download create-next-app to bootstrap the example:

npm i -g create-next-app
create-next-app --example with-electron with-electron-app

Download manually

Download the example or clone the repo:

curl https://codeload.github.com/zeit/next.js/tar.gz/canary | tar -xz --strip=2 next.js-canary/examples/with-electron
cd with-electron

Install it and run:

npm install
npm start

The idea behind the example

This example show how you can use Next.js inside an Electron application to avoid a lot of configuration, use Next.js router as view and use server-render to speed up the initial render of the application.

For development it's going to run a HTTP server and let Next.js handle routing. In production it use next export to pre-generate HTML static files and use them in your app instead of running an HTTP server.

You can create the production app using npm run dist.