README.md

# Electron application example

This example show how you can use Next.js inside an Electron application to avoid a lot of configuration, use Next.js router as view and use server-render to speed up the initial render of the application.

For development it's going to run a HTTP server and let Next.js handle routing. In production it use `next export` to pre-generate HTML static files and use them in your app instead of running an HTTP server.

**You can find a detailed documentation about how to build Electron apps with Next.js [here](https://leo.im/2017/electron-next)!**

## How to use

### Using `create-next-app`

Execute [`create-next-app`](https://github.com/zeit/next.js/tree/canary/packages/create-next-app) with [npm](https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/init) or [Yarn](https://yarnpkg.com/lang/en/docs/cli/create/) to bootstrap the example:

```bash
npm init next-app --example with-electron with-electron-app
# or
yarn create next-app --example with-electron with-electron-app
```

### Download manually

Download the example:

```bash
curl https://codeload.github.com/vercel/next.js/tar.gz/canary | tar -xz --strip=2 next.js-canary/examples/with-electron
cd with-electron
```

Install it and run:

```bash
npm install
npm run start
# or
yarn
yarn start
```

You can create the production app using `npm run dist`.