Electron / Nwjs support about angular-seed-advanced HOT 6 CLOSED

This is available on master now.
https://github.com/NathanWalker/angular2-seed-advanced#electron-app

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@realsaraf Thank you for the kind words.
Here's a couple excellent resources on Electron + ng2:

https://github.com/angular/angular-electron

https://www.xplatform.rocks/2016/02/14/angular2-and-electron-the-definitive-guide/

https://auth0.com/blog/2015/12/15/create-a-desktop-app-with-angular-2-and-electron/

Good tips: http://blog.axosoft.com/2016/03/04/electron-things-to-know/

My hope is to bring that support within a month from now, however I'm always open to PR's. ;)
If you plan to contribute in anyway, just bear in mind the project organization and try to stay true to that.

There's 2 paths to take (not sure yet which one will make most sense and work out):

1. Keep everything together in src folder. Electron bootstrap and all. Concern here is the same as NativeScript. Doing so requires web builds to also depend on the electron libraries for the TS build to succeed unless you can come up with a clever way to exclude certain frameworks on TS build of web and then include them in the electron build.
2. Create an electron folder as I did with nativescript. Then add a prepare and start task similar to here: https://github.com/NathanWalker/angular2-seed-advanced/blob/master/nativescript/package.json#L11-L12 ... This is what brings the shared codebase into it's respective build. Then in the electron folder you only create the bare minimum on top of the shared codebase to make it work. You would still create desktop.framework in the main src directory which would contain any shared desktop setup similar to what I did with nativescript.framework here: https://github.com/NathanWalker/angular2-seed-advanced/tree/master/src/frameworks/nativescript.framework

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Hi @NathanWalker ,

Thank you for your prompt response and the tips. I will try to follow what you said and if i come up with something good, i will try to submit a PR.

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As far as NW.js, there are these comparisons:
https://www.xplatform.rocks/2016/02/09/nw-js-vs-electron/

http://tangiblejs.com/posts/nw-js-electron-compared

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Thanks

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Experimentation is being done here:
https://github.com/NathanWalker/angular2-seed-advanced/tree/4-electron-support

Blocked by Router trouble at moment.

Run by the following:

npm run start.desktop --desktop

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