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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

Execute create-next-app with Yarn or npx to bootstrap the example:

npx create-next-app --example with-electron with-electron-app
# or
yarn create next-app --example with-electron with-electron-app

Download manually

Download the example:

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 run start
# or
yarn
yarn 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.