Run Electron Application for Testing — run_electron

Launches a previously exported Electron application for testing and debugging without building distributable packages. Pass the electron-app directory from a prior export() call.

Usage

run_electron_app(app_dir, port = 3000, open_devtools = TRUE, verbose = TRUE)

Arguments

app_dir: Character string. Path to the Electron application directory (the electron-app subdirectory from export()).
port: Integer. Port number for the development server. Default is 3000.
open_devtools: Logical. Whether to open Chromium DevTools automatically. Default is TRUE.
verbose: Logical. Whether to display detailed progress information. Default is TRUE.

Value

Invisibly returns the completed processx::run() result list (with status, stdout, and stderr) after Electron exits, or NULL if the run is interrupted. Note that this call blocks until the Electron window is closed.

Details

This function starts the Electron application for testing, which:

Opens the application in an Electron window
Optionally opens Chromium DevTools for debugging
Does NOT build distributable packages (use export(build = TRUE) for that)

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
# Run Electron app in development mode
run_electron_app("path/to/electron/app")

# Run with custom port and no dev tools
run_electron_app(
  app_dir = "path/to/app",
  port = 8080,
  open_devtools = FALSE
)
} # }