Common Lisp GUI with Electron · quick how to

console.log(`Hello from Electron 👋`)

const { app, BrowserWindow } = require('electron')

const { spawn } = require('child_process');

// Suppose we have our app binary at the current directory.

var binaryPaths = [
    "./openbookstore",
];

// Define any arg required for the binary.
var binaryArgs = ["--web"];

const binaryapp = null;

const runLocalApp = () => {
    "Run our binary app locally."
    console.log("running our app locally…");
    const binaryapp = spawn(binaryPaths[0], binaryArgs);
    return binaryapp;
}

// Start an Electron window.

const createWindow = () => {
  const win = new BrowserWindow({
    width: 800,
    height: 600,
  })

  // Open localhost on the app's port.
  // We should read the port from an environment variable or a config file.
  win.loadURL('http://localhost:4242/')
}

// Run our app.
let child = runLocalApp();

// We want to see stdout and stderr of the child process
// (to see our Lisp app output).
child.stdout.on('data', (data) => {
  console.log(`stdout:\n${data}`);
});

child.stderr.on('data', (data) => {
  console.error(`stderr: ${data}`);
});

child.on('error', (error) => {
  console.error(`error: ${error.message}`);
});

// Handle Electron close events.
child.on('close', (code) => {
  console.log(`openbookstore process exited with code ${code}`);
});

// Open it in Electron.
app.whenReady().then(() => {
    createWindow();

    // Open a window if none are open (macOS)
    if (process.platform == 'darwin') {
        app.on('activate', () => {
            if (BrowserWindow.getAllWindows().length === 0) createWindow()
        })
    }
})


// On Linux and Windows, quit the app main all windows are closed.
app.on('window-all-closed', () => {
    if (process.platform !== 'darwin') {
        app.quit();
    }
})