Using electron-packager

All builds produced by electron-packager can be found within the build folder.

Building for all platforms

Please know that not all Operating Systems can build for all other platforms.

npm run build

Building for a specific platform

Platforms include darwin, mas, linux and win32.

# build for darwin (macOS)
npm run build:darwin

Cleaning

Delete all builds from build.

npm run build:clean

A note for non-Windows users

If you are wanting to build for Windows with a custom icon using a non-Windows platform, you must have wine installed. More Info.

Default building configurations

Further customization can be made at .electron-vue/build.config.js in accordance to electron-packager's options found here. The name applied to your built application is set with the productName value in your package.json.

{
    // Target 'x64' architecture
    arch: 'x64',

    // Compress app using 'electron/asar'
    asar: true,

    // Directory of the app
    dir: path.join(__dirname, '../'),

    // Set electron app icon
    // File extensions are added based on platform
    //
    // If building for Linux, please read
    // https://github.com/electron-userland/electron-packager/blob/master/docs/api.md#icon
    icon: path.join(__dirname, '../build/icons/icon'),

    // Ignore files that would bloat final build size
    ignore: /(^\/(src|test|\.[a-z]+|README|yarn|static|dist\/web))|\.gitkeep/,

    // Save builds to `builds`
    out: path.join(__dirname, '../build'),

    // Overwrite existing builds
    overwrite: true,

    // Environment variable that sets platform
    platform: process.env.BUILD_TARGET || 'all'
}

buildVersion and appVersion

On Windows and OS X, buildVersion and appVersion are used as metadata, as explained in electron-packager docs.
On linux, two files are added inside the build folder, appVersion and buildVersion, containing respectively, the version number in your app's pacakage.json in appVersion, and the SHA from last commit in buildVersion.