Rowboat

Helping you navigate the streams!

Stack

Stencil

The main application is built with stenciljs. Stencil providers a spiffy framework for building out page components and app architecture with jsx. It’s main strength is outputting vanilla web components, which is awesome #usetheplatform #ihatereact.

Ionic Framework

The component library is the Ionic Framework. Ionic provides a ton of components that are ready to use out of the box like list views, form fields, etc. I’ve used Ionic for many hybrid mobile apps and love the product and team behind it.

Neutralino

The tool used to build desktop application is Neutralino. It uses the existing web library on the native device instead of bundling Chromium, resulting in much smaler file sizes. This is the first time using this tool, but it seems promising thus far.

Commands

Running locally

• make sure you’ve run npm install to install dependencies

• you will need the neu CLI tool in order to build desktop apps

• run npm run build to trigger Stencil to output a build into /www

• running npm run app:run will run the desktop app on your platform locally, Ctl+C to stop

• if you want to run JUST the stencil app, npm run start will do the trick

• to build desktop apps, run npm run app:build and the executables will be located in /dist/rowboat