Electron

All-in-one packager producing the Arduino IDE Electron-based application.

Prerequisites

The prerequisites are defined here.

Build

To build the Arduino IDE application you have to do the followings:

yarn --cwd ./electron/packager/ && yarn --cwd ./electron/packager/ package

The packaged application will be under the ./electron/build/dist folder.

CI

We always build an electron-based application for Windows. Create a PR, and the CI will automatically create the app for Windows. Do you need the builds for macOS and Linux? Start a build manually.

The electron packager runs when:

the build is manually triggered by the user, or
on scheduled (CRON) jobs.

Creating a Release Draft

One can create a GitHub release draft, tag the source, and upload the artifacts to GitHub with Azure.

Go to the Azure build page.
Click on Queue in the top right corner.
Set the branch to master or leave as is if it is already showing master.
Add the Release.Tag pipeline variable and set the desired release version. Note, the version must start with v and we recommend naming tags that fit within semantic versioning.

Click on Queue.
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Publishing the Release Draft

One has to manually publish the GitHub release.

Go to the release page of the arduino-editor repository.
Select your release draft.
Click on Edit.

Optionally, you can adjust the release draft if you want.

Select Publish release.
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