Electron is absolutely awesome thing! It’s easy for use of HTML, CSS and JavaScript, it’s crossplatform, and many others. And, how complicated is to make it run on Raspberry Pi? It’s pretty easy! Let’s install it!
Log in into SSH as user pi, and if you not have installed NodeJS, execute this: (in Putty/SSH, press right mouse button to paste):
cd /tmp wget https://nodejs.org/dist/v8.2.1/node-v8.2.1-linux-armv7l.tar.xz tar xfv node-v8.2.1-linux-armv7l.tar.xz cd node-v8.2.1-linux-armv7l sudo cp -R * /usr/local/
And now just download and install Electron
sudo npm install -g electron --unsafe-perm=true --allow-root
If you want to test it, install Electron quick start app
# Clone this repository git clone https://github.com/electron/electron-quick-start # Go into the repository cd electron-quick-start # Install dependencies npm install # Set display export DISPLAY=:0 # Run the app npm start
And it’s done! 🙂