electron-openui5-boilerplate

This repository contains a boilerplate for developing Electron applications using OpenUI5.

Prerequisits

• node.js => 8.2.1
• Electron => 1.6.11

Usage

• Get the boilerplate, by either

  • downloading a release as ZIP file or
  • cloning the repository

• After downloading or cloning, rename the directory according to your application's name

• Open a terminal and cd into the directory

• Delete the .git folder, if present

  • this is necessary, since it points to the boilerplate repository on GitHub

• Open the file package.json and replace the following placeholders:

  Place Holder	Description
  APPNAME_PLACEHOLDER	Application name, must only contain characters A-Z, a-z
  DESCRIPTION_PLACEHOLDER	Description of your application
  UI5_APP_NAMESPACE_PLACEHOLDER	Base namespace of your application that used in the OpenUI5 code
  REPOSITORY_URL_PLACEHOLDER	URL of the source repository
  AUTHOR_PLACEHOLDER	Your name
  EMAIL_PLACEHOLDER	Your email address

• In the terminal, issue the following commands:

  • npm install --only=dev
  • node rename-project.js

• You're ready to go!

  • You can now delete the files rename-project.js and README.md