Thanks for the support, guys. Also Mark, thanks for the intros. When this is figured out it will be a powerful tool for kiosk/medium size connected device development.
I will try all of this out shortly! On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 11:50 AM Marco Trevisan < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi Anthony, > > Electron OS backend (brightray) doesn't support mir yet AFAIK, although > if you want to use this framework you could use a simple X server in the > mean time, and then move to mir once we get support for that (I expect > this to be a quick update at that point). > > I've been playing a little with electron apps and snapcraft, and they > can run pretty easily by using something like this [1]. However, right > now it only works when installed in --devmode, but I guess we'll fix > this soon. > > [1] https://code.launchpad.net/~3v1n0/+junk/electron-quick-start-snap > > Il 23/05/2016 10:33, Mark Shuttleworth ha scritto: > > Hi Anthony > > > > You should be able to get first-class support for Electron as I know > > there are a few Electron-based snaps in progress. > > > > I wanted to bring your mail thread into the new list > > ([email protected]). > > > > I'm pretty sure your use case, a web-based kiosk style snap, is going to > > be very common. So for now I would suggest that you work on a desktop > > snap that works on plain old Ubuntu 16.04 desktop in --devmode while > > other folks work out the kinks for non-X11 electron snaps. That wont > > take long and then yours will fit right in :) > > > > Mark > > > > On 25/04/16 17:29, Anthony Kolodzinski wrote: > >> Hi all, > >> > >> I am new to Snappy development, and have a question regarding an > >> application I am developing. > >> > >> My requirement is to be able to run a minimal, single window GUI using > >> HTML, CSS, Javascript, and to be able to run it natively using a > framework > >> like electron <http://electron.atom.io/>. > >> > >> My question is, should I attempt to build X and electron in a docker > >> container, and hook that into my monitor, or use something like the QT > Web > >> Engine <http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtwebengine-index.html> with MIR. > >> > >> Secondly, I have searched around, but if anybody has any resources that > >> provide examples on how to accomplish this it would be greatly > appreciated. > >> Thanks. > >
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