Create an app with Electron and React

How to create an Electron Node.js desktop application using create-react-app 2021 UPDATE: I highly recommend using electron-react-boilerplate instead of the approach described in this post Table of Contents Install Node.js if you haven’t already Move to your development folder Create react app Add electron Install foreman to allow executing the app from command line Install the create-react-app dependencies Configure eslint Enough with the setup! Start up Thanks to When I first used Electron in 2015 it was not yet clear that it would be so pervasive in modern apps, and I was kind of shocked by the resulting app size....