Changelog

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

v0.2.0

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)

v0.3.0

update to react-scripts v5
improve CI pipeline
some dependency updates