I have to say this is by far the most helpful template to run vite, electron and tailwind altogether and it in fact is better than many popular templates because it's easy to understand, use and config. Thanks a lot to the author!

I have a question about how to update electron version, though. Currently the template is based on electron 12 and the newest stable version is 14. As electron is a fast changing framework I think it's good for us to pick up the pace. But every time I run yarn install after changing electron version to 14.0.0 the terminal will stuck at the waiting process while installing new electron version. It doesn't help if I delete electron and reinstall the newer version.

Here is the stuck status while installing electron-14.0.0:

And here is what happened after the pending period is finally over:

My System:
linux mint cinammon 20.2
nodejs 16.8.0

Thanks!

I am a bit confused. I cloned the repo, and then ran npm i -D, followed by npm run dev, and I am getting a blank window with no content. Inspecting the elements in dev tools confirms this also.

Am I missing something?

Hi,

I am implementing the security tip from Electron.
https://www.electronjs.org/docs/tutorial/security#2-do-not-enable-nodejs-integration-for-remote-content

But this has no effect, I don't know if it's because vite and electron run independently of each other.

create-window.js

- nodeIntegration: true,
+ preload: path.join(app.getAppPath(), 'preload.js'),

preload.js

const { ipcRenderer } = require('electron')
window.ipcRenderer = ipcRenderer

index.html

  <script>
    alert(window.ipcRenderer) // Return: "undefined"
  </script>

Could you support me with this problem?

How to setup auto reload when background.js or other js files changes?

I'm trying run on windows 10.

npx degit appinteractive/electron-vite-tailwind-starter  m --force
cd m
yarn install
yarn build
 .\build\win-unpacked\electron-vite-tailwind-starter.exe

What was the purpose of the windowName variable passed to your create-window helper? It doesn't appear to be used. You're passing the window name to the function when calling it from the main process.

Hi,
I have this
"VITE NOT READY, WILL TRY AGAIN IN 200ms
READY
VITE NOT READY, WILL TRY AGAIN IN 200ms
VITE NOT READY, WILL TRY AGAIN IN 200ms
VITE NOT READY, WILL TRY AGAIN IN 200ms
VITE NOT READY, WILL TRY AGAIN IN 200ms"

in my console and the desktop app reload continuos, why ?

I get the following warning when I start the dev server:

postcss.plugin was deprecated. Migration guide:
https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/postcss-8-plugin-migration