Apply Babel to main process about electron-vue HOT 5 CLOSED

I've actually had this into consideration lately and I love your proposal for the file structure. As of now I can't devote my time on this but will probably happen in the near future.

The only down side to bringing support for this is the fact that electron main process requires a full restart of the app. Hopefully I can find a way to reboot the app on changes.

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Glad you like it, although admittedly bummed you won't have the time because I fought for hours last night trying to get this in place myself. Webpack defated me hard. I couldn't figure out how to restructure things without them breaking pretty much irreparably heh... I've been using gulp for a while and have only used Vue as a basic, more modern jquery ( as in, script tags 😮 ) so this is a very cool setup.

Totally get the lack of time though. If you have any advice on how I could go about this I'd be willing to give it a shot myself.

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One big difference is that the webpack target would need to be electron for the main process. Since you can't have multiple targets you'd have to create another webpack configuration. I believe you can export an array of configs from the webpack.config.js and the npm run dev should run both. Nobody has really supported this in the past so it would take a little pioneering to perfect this setup.

Thinking about all this makes me want to get started 😁. So maybe I can get something ready tonight or by this weekend.

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It is exciting isn't it 😉 ES2019 all the things.

I've actually come across a few that do something similar, but again I don't know a lot about webpack so they might differ in ways I'm not seeing. I'll throw them here as references since they should be helpful:

React / Electron / Webpack boilerplate by jogleasonjr - this one is the most accurate in terms of what I'd want for directory structure
Tc by mccxiv - this one has what seems like a more desirable webpack configuration.

• Edit: I'd also like to add that main process hot reloading would be awesome but secondary to simply having those files be transpiled. I'm fine with restarting manually in these cases. I'm mostly concerned with having access to babel features in the main process.

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Amazing what sleeping on an issue will do... I came back for round 2 against Webpack and was able to get it. @SimulatedGREG let me know your thoughts.

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