Minimal Kiosk App with Snappy

[Mark Shuttleworth]

Hi Anthony

You should be able to get first-class support for Electron as I know
there are a few Electron-based snaps in progress.

I wanted to bring your mail thread into the new list
(snapcraft at lists.ubuntu.com).

I'm pretty sure your use case, a web-based kiosk style snap, is going to
be very common. So for now I would suggest that you work on a desktop
snap that works on plain old Ubuntu 16.04 desktop in --devmode while
other folks work out the kinks for non-X11 electron snaps. That wont
take long and then yours will fit right in :)

Mark

On 25/04/16 17:29, Anthony Kolodzinski wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am new to Snappy development, and have a question regarding an
> application I am developing.
>
> My requirement is to be able to run a minimal, single window GUI using
> HTML, CSS, Javascript, and to be able to run it natively using a framework
> like electron <http://electron.atom.io/>.
>
> My question is, should I attempt to build X and electron in a docker
> container, and hook that into my monitor, or use something like the QT Web
> Engine <http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtwebengine-index.html> with MIR.
>
> Secondly, I have searched around, but if anybody has any resources that
> provide examples on how to accomplish this it would be greatly appreciated.
> Thanks.
>
>
>

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