Minimal Kiosk App with Snappy

[Marco Trevisan]

Hi Anthony,

Electron OS backend (brightray) doesn't support mir yet AFAIK, although
if you want to use this framework you could use a simple X server in the
mean time, and then move to mir once we get support for that (I expect
this to be a quick update at that point).

I've been playing a little with electron apps and snapcraft, and they
can run pretty easily by using something like this [1]. However, right
now it only works when installed in --devmode, but I guess we'll fix
this soon.

[1] https://code.launchpad.net/~3v1n0/+junk/electron-quick-start-snap

Il 23/05/2016 10:33, Mark Shuttleworth ha scritto:
> 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.