electron-node-red

This is an Electron template to embed Node-RED with a Dashboard generated by node-red-dashboard.

You can base off this model and update the package.json file to include your own required dependencies.

To Use

To clone and run this repository you'll need Git and Node.js (which comes with npm) installed on your computer. From your command line:

# Clone this repository
git clone https://github.com/natcl/electron-node-red.git
# Go into the repository
cd electron-node-red
# Install dependencies and run the app
npm install && npm start

Packaging your application

If you want to distribute executables of this project, the easiest way is to use electron-packager:

sudo npm install -g electron-packager

# build for OS X 64 bits
electron-packager electron-node-red Node-RED --icon=nodered.icns --platform=darwin --arch=x64

# build for Windows 64 bits
electron-packager electron-node-red Node-RED --icon=nodered.icns --platform=win32 --arch=x64

# build for Linux 64 bits
electron-packager electron-node-red Node-RED --icon=nodered.icns --platform=linux --arch=x64

Learn more about Electron and its API in the documentation.

To package as a dmg

look at https://github.com/LinusU/node-appdmg

appdmg appdmg.json ~/Desktop/NodeRED.dmg

License CC0 (Public Domain)