0.3.0

Dependency updates

v0.2.0

Features:

• reworked build process: (#22)

  • Restructured project directories
    • Electron specific sources are now in electron
    • the main process scripts are in electron/main
    • the preload scripts reside in electron/preload
  • new build and package scripts
    • the Electron main script will now be packaged with webpack
    • the preload script will also be packages with webpack
  • secured electron main process and their APIs
    • deactivated nodeIntregration and enabled contextIsolation to lock down renderer processes
    • communication can only happen trough IPC with an additional layer of security with a custom implementation in the built preload.js script which will be loaded on every browser window start and injects the custom API into the global window context
    • communication can only happen over registered channels
  • extensive type support both on main process and renderer side
  • automatic devtools loading on development build
  • example implementations: (#7)
    • menu builder and IPC manager on main process side
    • ipc register and send on the renderer side in React
  • unit tests for the custom IPC event hook
  • global typed mocks for Jest integration tests
  • auto update feature (#6)
  • updated README.md (#9)

  The wiki also contains more information about the build process and different scripts used in the project now.

Updates

Dependency Updates

• Bump typescript from 4.1.2 to 4.1.3 (#20)
• Bump eslint-plugin-prettier from 3.2.0 to 3.3.0 (#18)
• Bump @types/node from 14.14.11 to 14.14.14 (#25)
• Bump @types/jest from 26.0.17 to 26.0.19 (#16)
• Bump @testing-library/user-event from 12.5.0 to 12.6.0 (#21)
• Bump ts-loader from 8.0.11 to 8.0.12 (#28)
• Bump electron from 11.0.4 to 11.1.0 (#27)

GitHub Actions Updates

• Bump actions/setup-node from v2.1.2 to v2.1.4 (#26)

v0.1.0

• initial release of the project
• Typescript Support for the main process scripts and the React app
• developing in an electron container with hot-reloading (from react-scripts)
• style linting and formatting of the project source code
• building of main process scripts with Typescript and React application with react-scripts
• packaging of the build files in an electron app for Linux, Windows and macOS with electron-builder
• predefined continuous integration workflows for application linting, building and testing
• automatic building and packaging on git tags
• automatic dependency updates via dependabot

v0.0.9

This is the first test release. Please do not use it.