Pacakging Electron-Eel

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My steps:

1. Download source folder：08 - Eelectron-quick-start；
2. Enter the folder, and install dependencies：yarn install；（yarn command need: npm install yarn -g）
3. Add electron-builder devDependencies: yarn add electron-builder --dev；
4. Modify scripts in file package.json: "dist": "electron-builder --ia32"; (--ia32 can be ignored)
5. Package Electron: yarn run dist；（Then generated folder./dist/win-ia32-unpacked, and the Eelectron-quick-start.exe file in win-ia32-unpacked is an Electron executable as browser container）
6. Modify the options in file hello.py: 'args': ['win-ia32-unpacked/Eelectron-quick-start.exe', '.'];
7. Install Python library Pyinstaller: pip install Pyinstaller;
8. Package Eel: python -m eel hello.py web --onefile --noconsole; (Generated the single executable file hello.exe in dist folder)

• The final generated files is a folder win-ia32-unpacked and a file hello.exe; (Both in the same folder)
• The hello.exe is launcher of the project.
• Eel as a server, Electron as a browser. Eel serve the web, and run the Electron; Electron access Eel server.
• Disk usage: folder win-ia32-unpacked 127M; file hello.exe 27M; zip (win-ia32-unpacked and hello.exe) 82M.
• Memory usage: Eelectron-quick-start.exe 42M; hello.exe 13M.

So, anyone else have a better idea about packaging the Electron-Eel?

[ninyawee]

Since the electron-builder provides packaging and distributing. I think electron-builder should be the step after pyinstaller.

[Kamrulhasan12345]

The 'options' looks deprecated cz it shows me error. So I used the following in my hello.py: eel.start ('index.html', mode='custom', cmdline-args='path/to/electron/exe/in/node_modules',['.']')

But how can I package the electron-eel app if i use this config?

[lucdsouza]

The 'options' looks deprecated cz it shows me error. So I used the following in my hello.py: eel.start ('index.html', mode='custom', cmdline-args='path/to/electron/exe/in/node_modules',['.']')

But how can I package the electron-eel app if i use this config?

I was able to package it using python -m eel --add-data="main.js;." --add-data="node_modules;node_modules" --add-data="package-lock.json;." --add-data="package.json;." --noconfirm main.py web

but when I try use --onefile I get this error when executing the exe :v