Build & Distribution Process

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Overview

We need to design and implement a repeatable process for building and distributing our electron app across various platforms. I'm open to suggested alternatives, but Electron Forge is the main promoted tool on Electron's docs about distribution.

The solution should allow for the easy packaging and distribution of our app across a variety of operating systems, and also needs to account for the cross-platform build of the Spec client that we perform with pkg. The pkg tool has its own way of specifying a target platform when building a Node.js app as a binary. These targets always need to match, since we end up including the Spec client binary as a sidecar within our electron app.

Useful Links

• Electron
• Electron Forge
• pkg