meteor Electrify - Compiling Meteor as a Locally Installable App Installing Electrify for a Meteor application
Example
Electron ports HTML web applications to native applications for a range of devices, including creating native desktop applications. It's also very easy to get started!
To begin, we must have electron, nodejs, npm, git and meteor installed. Familiarity with these tools is vital for working with Meteor, so make sure you know about these things first.
Electron
npm install -g electrify
electronis what we're using! Read more here.electrifyis a tool for packaging Meteor apps. Read mode here.
Other requirements for installing and using Electrify with Meteor
Meteor
curl https://install.meteor.com/ | sh
There are many ways to install Meteor, see here.
meteoris the JavaScript framework we'll be using for building our application. It provides us with a lot of coding simplifications for some rather conceptually hard problems in web applications; its simplicity has been noted as useful for prototypical projects. Read more here.
NodeJS
apt-get install nodejs build-essentials
There are many ways to install, depending on your OS. Find out which way you need here.
nodejsis the package for Node.js, which is a Javascript environment for running JavaScript on the server side. Read more here.
npm
npm should be bundled with the nodejs installation. Check it is by running the command npm -v after installing nodejs.
npmis the Node Package Manager. It's a huge collection of open source modules that you can easily add into your Node projects. Read more here.
