Electron installation

In this section, we will learn the installation of Electron To install Electron , you first need to ensure that Node.js has been installed locally.

Node.js installation

Node.js official website address: https://nodejs.org/en/, into the official web surface are as follows:

It is recommended to download the LTS version. After downloading, execute the installation program and complete the installation according to the guide.

After the installation is complete, we need to confirm Node.js can work normally. You can check whether the installation is successful by entering the following command in the command line tool:

$ node -v
$ npm -v

As shown in the figure below, if the two commands both display the version number, the installation is successful, because Node.js has been updated, you can download the latest version on the official website:

Electron installation

To install the pre-compiled binary file, we can use the npm command to install it. The installation command is as follows:

npm install electron --save-dev

In this installation command, --save-dev means to install the module into the project directory, and write dependencies in the devDependencies node of the package.json

Or we can choose to install globally. For global installation, you need to add a -g to the command:

npm install electron -g

As shown below:

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npm install -g cnpm --registry=https://registry.npm.taobao.org

Then use cnpm to install:

cnpm install electron -g

Check whether the installation is successful

After installation, we can check electron -v command, the command is as follows:

> electron -v

as the picture shows:

Install packaged output tool

In order to facilitate the output of the final results, it is recommended to install the electron-packager tool. The installation is also very simple. It is recommended to install globally with the following command:

npm install -g electron-packager

Results as shown below: