Building Cross Platform GUI apps in Go and Electron

[Nyah Check]

Hi Gophers,

I have this project to build an SSH client for Windows, Linux and Mac OS. I have built the back end in Go and intend to build the front end in electron. I'm currently stuck getting the GUI to work. The back end of the app works well on the Linux browser. I just wish to know if there are any Go packages that facilitate the building of cross platform Desktop apps with Go and electron.  I've found Gallium and Murlok; but they all seem to support only Mac OS only. 

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Nyah

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[Michael Banzon]

I have no deep knowledge of this - but is also looking into a project with similar characteristics.

I'm wondering what specifically isn't working for you?

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[Nyah Check]

When I compile the source with gox for the different platforms. packing the electron files with the respective shell scripts the binaries don't seem to work on windows. So I'm guessing I've messed up the electron configs somewhere. I just hoped there might have been a go package developed for this to make it easier to build for different platforms.

On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 1:46 PM, Michael Banzon <mic...@banzon.dk> wrote:

I have no deep knowledge of this - but is also looking into a project with similar characteristics.

I'm wondering what specifically isn't working for you?

On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 1:33 PM Nyah Check <check...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Gophers,

I have this project to build an SSH client for Windows, Linux and Mac OS. I have built the back end in Go and intend to build the front end in electron. I'm currently stuck getting the GUI to work. The back end of the app works well on the Linux browser. I just wish to know if there are any Go packages that facilitate the building of cross platform Desktop apps with Go and electron.  I've found Gallium and Murlok; but they all seem to support only Mac OS only. 

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Nyah

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hi,

same interest here. Have you checked https://electron.atom.io/docs/tutorial/application-distribution/ ?

If i m correct the front end could be the packager app,
i was reading at electron-builder,
to include the backend, i d simply
add the files to the builder manifest,
like described at
https://github.com/electron-userland/electron-builder/wiki/Options#source-and-destination-directories

I have not dig yet too much about
- menu/desktop links
- growler (? desktop app notifications)

an easier solution seems
https://github.com/electron-userland/electron-packager

But, i read https://github.com/electron-userland/electron-packager#about

Note that packaged Electron applications can be relatively large. A zipped barebones OS X Electron application is around 40MB.

And https://github.com/electron-userland/electron-builder#electron-builder---

... support out of the box. NPM packages management:

• Native application dependencies compilation (including Yarn support).

So in my case, maybe i ll simply make a go executable
and rely on the browser without electron.
40 mb is huge... I don t want either to install the whole nodejs ecosystem for such app.