Native modules about electron-angular-ngrx

[greg9504]

Forgot to add that I had to remove references to bootstrap for now, as the electron-builder would throw errors (Error: Unresolved node modules: jquery, popper.js), for possible work arounds see electron-userland/electron-builder#2529

ON EDIT - just looking at my other changes:

• In typings.d.ts in root dir I had to add:

declare var window: Window;
interface Window {
  process: any;
  require: any;
}

So that I could do window.require('better-sqlite3');
Again this was found by looking at what https://github.com/maximegris/angular-electron did.

So using better-sqlite3 as an example, to use the native module would look like:

import * as Database from 'better-sqlite3';
// then instead of doing
// const db = new Database(args...);
// do
const dataBase: typeof Database = window.require('better-sqlite3');
const db = dataBase(args...);

The maximegris repo creates a service to hide the window.require("native-module") part.

To be honest I'm not sue why this works. From a 'coding' point of view I much prefer not having to do the window.require and just import then new the object, which is how it worked with the https://github.com/colinskow/angular-electron-dream-starter repo. It would be nice to figure out how the default paths used for require are produced.

Greg.

[Kaffiend]

@greg9504 Fantastic research and documentation. Ill take a look at this, this weekend. There are some things i want to try with extending the CLI for a more natural integration and should help with this.