Electron app with React, Shadcn & Sequelize.

[scarlet fossil]

I want to build an app that uses React in the frontend, with the help of Shadcn for components, that can then interact with a local sqlite database file that is created BY this app..

Now im not sure what way to go about it as im told that there's a specific way about having npm packages installed for electron apps... or something?

[scarlet fossil]

anyone?

[crimson current]

Hey! Tbh it's kind of a nightmare to approach this whole thing as nobody seems to have a recently implemented template. I ended up using electron-vite in my monorepo. Still figuring out most details, but their react template was the best I could find, and it's also pretty straightforward to understand and use.

[scarlet fossil]

Yeah I plan to use electron-vite too. My main issue is I'm unsure how the whole importing of npm modules works with packaging etc.

[crimson current]

same same, just going with it. With my monorepo packages since it uses composite tsconfigs, it's a nightmare to get the intellisense working, as you have to include the whole package in the web.tsconfig.

Still, module resolution is pretty neat, as vite is the packager.

[scarlet fossil]

that is unrelated to my post above.

[crimson current]

Well, it kinda is considering vite is resolving the packages...

[scarlet fossil]

no.. this is completely irrelavent towards what i had asked.

not once did i ask how to resolve package paths on the renderer... I asked how to go about importing npm modules, as ive been told that npm mpdules needed to be rebuilt or something electron apps.

[round junco]

Only native node packages must be rebuilt to become compatible with electron's ABI. If you don't use them, you should not worry about it

[scarlet fossil]

so, if i were to import something like sequelize/typeorm from the main/ or shadcn from renderer/, they will compile as normal?

[round junco]

Yep, because there is no native code in these dependencies