Hosted Web App Starter Pack

This starter pack is designed to get started building your Windows Hosted Web App as fast as possible.

Benefits of the starter pack are:

• Tools to help you generate, package, and launch your Windows App
• Sass support
• ES6 syntax using Babel
• Code Linting with ESLint
• Automatic Browser/App refresh on HTML, CSS, JS changes using BrowserSync

Getting started

To get started, first fork the repo. Then clone to your machine and install the dependencies.

git clone https://github.com/<USERNAME>/hwa-starter.git && cd hwa-starter
npm install

To set up a local server with BrowswerSync to serve the content:

npm run serve

Next you can generate and launch a Windows app pointing to localhost. This has the same features as viewing your app in the browser, such as automatic refresh with BrowserSync, but it also allows you to access the Windows APIs from JavaScript.

npm run launch:local

Going to Production

Deploying content

The first step to move to production is to deploy the build output from the dist/ folder. If you'd like to use Github Pages, you can simply run the following command:

npm run deploy

Packaging the production app

// TODO -> Write packaging instructions