Re: [orion-dev] Electron selfhosting questions...

[Remy Suen <remy.suen@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Silenio,

On Sat, Nov 5, 2016 at 1:54 AM, Silenio Quarti
<Silenio_Quarti@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The electron browser is caching the client code. The dev flag was supposed
> to work around that. I am not sure why it is no longer taking effect.

Good to hear it's not a setup issue on my end then. Thanks.

> In the mean time, you can open the dev tools in the electron
> app, disable caching and refresh the page.

Thanks for the tip. I'll try to give that a whirl.

> The version of electron matters because of nodegit since it contains a
> native library.  Nodegit library is built specially depending whether you
> are planing to run nodejs or electron.  This probably explains why nodegit
> is not working for you.  You need an .npmrc file with the following content
> in the same directory of package.json before running npm install.
>
> silenios-mbp:orionode squarti$ cat .npmrc
> runtime = electron
> target = 1.2.7
> target_arch = x64
> dist_url = https://atom.io/download/atom-shell

Yeah, I tried many things including modifying my .npmrc but it refused
to work. I couldn't build a 1.4.5-targeted nodegit because of a 403
from S3 when trying to download the tarball (how about that?). I
thought I'd try downgrading electron but 1.2.7 is not in npm! I don't
think we should be targeting a version that isn't in npm...or is npm
the one that is moving too fast? I don't know.

Anyway, Michael Rennie helped me out and posted links to nodegit.node
binaries on Mattermost so I ultimately gave up and downloaded the
1.2.7 binary online. Here is a link to 1.2.7 and the links Michael
posted if anyone else is looking for them. In case it's not obvious,
the Windows binary is 64-bit and naturally won't work with a 32-bit
Electron.

https://github.com/electron/electron/releases/tag/v1.2.7

http://download.eclipse.org/orion/orionode/nodegit/v0.13.0/electron/v1.2.7/windows/nodegit.node
http://download.eclipse.org/orion/orionode/nodegit/v0.13.0/electron/v1.2.7/linux/nodegit.node
http://download.eclipse.org/orion/orionode/nodegit/v0.13.0/electron/v1.2.7/mac/nodegit.node

Regards,
Remy

>
>
> Silenio
>
>
> ----- Original message -----
> From: Remy Suen <remy.suen@xxxxxxxxx>
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> Subject: [orion-dev] Electron selfhosting questions...
> Date: Fri, Nov 4, 2016 7:56 AM
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I've been playing with the Electron app yesterday and today. For
> reference, I used OrionHub only very briefly about a year ago for some
> very, very small JavaScript projects. Thus, my experience with Orion
> is actually extremely limited.
>
> With that in mind, getting Electron to open wasn't all too difficult.
> I installed electron via npm and then proceeded to run Orion directly
> from the command line via a clone from GitHub.
>
>> electron server.js
>
> It's fine save for the fact that I still haven't gotten nodegit to
> work but that's not why I'm sending this email.
>
> Now, when I make changes to the Electron code (such as to server.js or
> main.js), my changes are reflected when I shutdown Electron and boot
> it up again. However, when I make changes to stuff in the bundles/
> folder, I am not seeing the changes when I restart Electron. I thought
> using the -dev argument would help but it didn't do anything.
>
> 1. What am I doing wrong? After I make modifications to the contents
> of the bundles/ folder, what do I need to do before restarting
> Electron again from the command line?
>
> 2. Where do I download prebuilt Electron Orion binaries (assuming
> those exist)? Though honestly, I kind of like what I've got going
> right now where I'm running my Electron instance using the code I'm
> developing on.
>
> 3. On the topic of dogfooding though, I would like to know what
> version of Electron is the Orion team targeting for 13.0? I see 1.2.7
> mentioned in the modules/orionode/package.json but my Electron from
> npm is 1.4.5. How much should I care about this discrepancy?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Regards,
> Remy
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