Would you buy a boilerplate for electron.js apps?

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2 years ago

Saw a lot of people struggling to integrate things like shadcn components or even react into electron and was thinking of publishing a boilerplate.

For reference I recently went through all of these struggles while building https://first2apply.com

Seeing the success of other boilerplate projects like https://shipfa.st/ there seems to be a need for them in different tech stack and electron doesn’t have one yet.

The stack I used for f2a is: - electron.js (obviously) - electron forge to run builds - auto-updater - react - tailwind css - shdcn components - supabase for auth + db + edge functions to run custom backend code - nextjs for landing page - blog project also built using nextjs with proper SEO - stripe for accepting payments (subscriptions)

Some other points worth mentioning: - it also supports email confirmation + forgot password functionality via deep links - I deployed f2a to the MS store and would include docs on how to do that (the appx built was a pain in the ass to figure out)

So bottom line is you would buy a batteries included boilerplate to start a SaaS with electron (landing page, blog, actual electron app)

Thinking about pricing it at 199$.

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