dasmoth · olgabot · Sep 19, 2017 · Sep 19, 2017
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
@@ -29,6 +29,14 @@ To build:
 ...then open any of the HTML files in the `example-browsers` directory
 to test.
 
+Electron app
+------------
+
+To run as an electron app, do:
+
+```
+npm start
+```
 
 Documentation
 -------------

diff --git a/example-browsers/zn_for_amy.html b/example-browsers/zn_for_amy.html
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+<!DOCTYPE html>
+
+<html>
+
+<head>
+
+<style>
+</style>
+
+<title>Zaire Ebolavirus :: Dalliance</title>
+<script language="javascript" src="../build/dalliance-all.js"></script>
+
+<script language="javascript">
+
+var b = new Browser({
+      chr:        'ZEBOV',
+      viewStart:  1,
+      viewEnd:    200,
+      cookieKey:  'ZEBOV',
+
+      coordSystem: {
+          speciesName: 'ZN',
+      },
+
+      sources:      [{name: 'Genome',
+                     twoBitURI:  '/Users/olgabot/code/winky/notebooks/ZN_refSeq.2bit',
+                     desc: 'ZN Reference Sequence',
+                     tier_type: 'sequence',
+                     provides_entrypoints: true}],
+        uiPrefix: '../',
+        fullScreen: true
+});
+</script>
+</head>
+
+<body>
+<div id='svgHolder'>Failed to load the Biodalliance genome browser.  Have you run "gulp"?</div>
+</body>
+</html>
diff --git a/main.js b/main.js
@@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
+const electron = require('electron')
+// Module to control application life.
+const app = electron.app
+// Module to create native browser window.
+const BrowserWindow = electron.BrowserWindow
+
+const path = require('path')
+const url = require('url')
+
+// Keep a global reference of the window object, if you don't, the window will
+// be closed automatically when the JavaScript object is garbage collected.
+let mainWindow
+
+function createWindow () {
+  // Create the browser window.
+  mainWindow = new BrowserWindow({width: 800, height: 600})
+
+  // and load the index.html of the app.
+  mainWindow.loadURL(url.format({
+    pathname: path.join(__dirname, 'example-browsers/mouse38.html'),
+    protocol: 'file:',
+    slashes: true
+  }))
+
+  // Open the DevTools.
+  // mainWindow.webContents.openDevTools()
+
+  // Emitted when the window is closed.
+  mainWindow.on('closed', function () {
+    // Dereference the window object, usually you would store windows
+    // in an array if your app supports multi windows, this is the time
+    // when you should delete the corresponding element.
+    mainWindow = null
+  })
+}
+
+// This method will be called when Electron has finished
+// initialization and is ready to create browser windows.
+// Some APIs can only be used after this event occurs.
+app.on('ready', createWindow)
+
+// Quit when all windows are closed.
+app.on('window-all-closed', function () {
+  // On OS X it is common for applications and their menu bar
+  // to stay active until the user quits explicitly with Cmd + Q
+  if (process.platform !== 'darwin') {
+    app.quit()
+  }
+})
+
+app.on('activate', function () {
+  // On OS X it's common to re-create a window in the app when the
+  // dock icon is clicked and there are no other windows open.
+  if (mainWindow === null) {
+    createWindow()
+  }
+})
+
+// In this file you can include the rest of your app's specific main process
+// code. You can also put them in separate files and require them here.
diff --git a/npm-debug.log b/npm-debug.log
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+0 info it worked if it ends with ok
+1 verbose cli [ '/usr/local/bin/node', '/usr/local/bin/npm', 'start' ]
+2 info using [email protected]
+3 info using [email protected]
+4 verbose run-script [ 'prestart', 'start', 'poststart' ]
+5 info lifecycle [email protected]~prestart: [email protected]
+6 silly lifecycle [email protected]~prestart: no script for prestart, continuing
+7 info lifecycle [email protected]~start: [email protected]
+8 verbose lifecycle [email protected]~start: unsafe-perm in lifecycle true
+9 verbose lifecycle [email protected]~start: PATH: /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/bin/node-gyp-bin:/Users/olgabot/code/dalliance/node_modules/.bin:/Users/olgabot/anaconda3/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/Library/TeX/texbin
+10 verbose lifecycle [email protected]~start: CWD: /Users/olgabot/code/dalliance
+11 silly lifecycle [email protected]~start: Args: [ '-c', 'electron .' ]
+12 silly lifecycle [email protected]~start: Returned: code: 1  signal: null
+13 info lifecycle [email protected]~start: Failed to exec start script
+14 verbose stack Error: [email protected] start: `electron .`
+14 verbose stack Exit status 1
+14 verbose stack     at EventEmitter.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/lib/utils/lifecycle.js:255:16)
+14 verbose stack     at emitTwo (events.js:106:13)
+14 verbose stack     at EventEmitter.emit (events.js:191:7)
+14 verbose stack     at ChildProcess.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/lib/utils/spawn.js:40:14)
+14 verbose stack     at emitTwo (events.js:106:13)
+14 verbose stack     at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:191:7)
+14 verbose stack     at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:920:16)
+14 verbose stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:230:5)
+15 verbose pkgid [email protected]
+16 verbose cwd /Users/olgabot/code/dalliance
+17 error Darwin 16.7.0
+18 error argv "/usr/local/bin/node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "start"
+19 error node v6.11.3
+20 error npm  v3.10.10
+21 error code ELIFECYCLE
+22 error [email protected] start: `electron .`
+22 error Exit status 1
+23 error Failed at the [email protected] start script 'electron .'.
+23 error Make sure you have the latest version of node.js and npm installed.
+23 error If you do, this is most likely a problem with the dalliance package,
+23 error not with npm itself.
+23 error Tell the author that this fails on your system:
+23 error     electron .
+23 error You can get information on how to open an issue for this project with:
+23 error     npm bugs dalliance
+23 error Or if that isn't available, you can get their info via:
+23 error     npm owner ls dalliance
+23 error There is likely additional logging output above.
+24 verbose exit [ 1, true ]
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
     "babel-preset-es2015": "^6.13.2",
     "babelify": "^7.3.0",
     "browserify": "12.0.1",
+    "electron": "1.7.6",
     "eslint": "^2.13.1",
     "gulp": "^3.9.1",
     "gulp-babel": "^6.1.2",
@@ -36,9 +37,18 @@
     "vinyl-source-stream": "1.1.0",
     "watchify": "~3.6.1"
   },
-  "files": ["lib", "css", "fonts", "help", "img", "build/worker-all.js"],
+  "files": [
+    "lib",
+    "css",
+    "fonts",
+    "help",
+    "img",
+    "build/worker-all.js"
+  ],
   "main": "lib/module-exports.js",
   "scripts": {
-    "compile": "babel js -d lib && gulp compile-worker"
+    "compile": "babel js -d lib && gulp compile-worker",
+    "start": "electron main.js"
   }
+
 }