ensure start order ok

main.js

@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ const electron = require('electron');
 const app = electron.app;
 // Module to create native browser window.
 const BrowserWindow = electron.BrowserWindow;
+// Start directly on the ui page
+const url = "http://localhost:8000/ui";
 
 const {Menu, MenuItem} = electron;
 
@@ -84,16 +86,18 @@ function createWindow () {
         height: 768,
         icon: __dirname + "/nodered.png"
     });
-    mainWindow.loadURL("http://localhost:8000/ui");
 
     var webContents = mainWindow.webContents;
     webContents.on('did-get-response-details', function(event, status, newURL, originalURL, httpResponseCode) {
-        if ((httpResponseCode == 404) && (newURL == "http://localhost:8000/ui")) {
-            setTimeout(webContents.reload, 200);
+        if ((httpResponseCode == 404) && (newURL == url)) {
+            setTimeout(webContents.reload, 250);
         }
         Menu.setApplicationMenu(Menu.buildFromTemplate(template));
     });
 
+    // load the initial page
+    setTimeout(function() {mainWindow.loadURL(url)}, 250);
+
     // Open the DevTools.
     //mainWindow.webContents.openDevTools();
 

package.json

@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
     },
     "dependencies": {
         "node-red": "^0.14.0",
-        "node-red-dashboard": "node-red/node-red-dashboard",
+        "node-red-dashboard": "node-red/node-red-dashboard#0.14.0",
         "node-red-contrib-web-worldmap": "^1.0.13",
         "node-red-node-geofence": "*",
         "node-red-node-disco": "./node-red-node-disco-0.0.1.tgz",