bootcamp-chat-app

This electron app will be used for the Electron Session on the Sogeti Digital Bootcamp on the 7th of April, 2017.

Description

The app contains the following functionality out of the box:

• Connection to a hosted chatserver (an instance of this project)
• A nice frontend based on Angular Material Design
• User accounts with Gravatar integration (though absolutely no authentication)
• Native notifications through node-notifier when the app window is blurred.

Prerequisites

Make sure you have the following packages available globally:

• NodeJS
• Gulp CLI
• Bower
• Electron-Forge

In case of doubt, run:

npm install -g gulp-cli bower electron-forge

Installation

npm install && bower install

Run App

npm start

Further development

1. Comment the lines adding the angular-electron package to the app.
2. Next, run gulp development.
3. A webserver will start in your browser and gulp will watch your files.
4. You can now make adjustments to the design and development!
5. If you uncomment the lines from step 1 and cancel the webserver you can run npm start again. (This command runs the gulp dist task and immediately runs electron-forge start.)