mgechev/electron-typescript-boilerplate

Electron TypeScript Boilerplate is a starting template for building desktop applications using Electron and TypeScript. If you've ever wanted to build a standalone desktop app for macOS, Windows, or Linux, something that runs outside a web browser, this repo gives you a working foundation. You can download it, run a couple of commands, and immediately see a functional desktop application window on your screen. What makes this template appealing is that it stays out of your way when choosing how to build your app's interface. It doesn't force you to use any specific frontend framework like React or Angular. Instead, it handles the foundational desktop setup and lets you plug in whatever tools you prefer for the actual user experience. The project is organized into two main folders: one for your source code that needs compiling, and another for static assets like images and HTML. The build process takes everything from the source folder, processes it, and outputs a complete, runnable application. This template is aimed at developers who want to skip the tedious setup phase of configuring a desktop app from scratch. For example, if you have an idea for a note-taking app or a file converter and want to distribute it as a real installable program rather than a website, you'd start here. It comes with pre-wired testing tools so you can verify your code works, and a release command that packages your finished app into an installer file ready for users to download. A notable design choice is the two-folder structure, which speeds up development builds significantly. The tradeoff is slightly more complexity around which files should be tracked in version control versus which are generated during the build. The template also includes continuous integration configs for both macOS/Linux and Windows, and it bundles all your code into streamlined files for distribution.