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Hello! I was using `npx create-next-app --ts` to quickly bootstrap a basic next.js project with Typescript. It bothered me that I got git diff just from running `npm run build` inside the project, because the new notice in the `next-env.d.ts` file. ![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/13413409/129115266-80e00bf3-78aa-40be-bd0f-a18aaa448a68.png) So I went ahead and updated the `next-env.d.ts` file in [`packages/create-next-app/templates/typescript`]( |
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Electron with Typescript application 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. Both Next.js and Electron layers are written in TypeScript and compiled to JavaScript during the build process.
Part | Source code (Typescript) | Builds (JavaScript) |
---|---|---|
Next.js | /renderer |
/renderer |
Electron | /electron-src |
/main |
Production | /dist |
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.
How to use
Execute create-next-app
with npm or Yarn to bootstrap the example:
npx create-next-app --example with-electron-typescript with-electron-typescript-app
# or
yarn create next-app --example with-electron-typescript with-electron-typescript-app
Available commands:
"build-renderer": build and transpile Next.js layer
"build-electron": transpile electron layer
"build": build both layers
"dev": start dev version
"dist": create production electron build
"type-check": check TypeScript in project
Notes
You can create the production app using npm run dist
.
note regarding types:
- Electron provides its own type definitions, so you don't need @types/electron installed! source: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@types/electron
- There were no types available for
electron-next
at the time of creating this example, so until they are available there is a fileelectron-next.d.ts
inelectron-src
directory.