Deployment / Build for Linux

From terminal from root of app, run the deployment script

npm install

Then

npm run build:linux

It creates a cache and a build folder. cache is a folder used by deploy to keep the latest version needed to build and package the app, to avoid having to re-download it every time. While the packaged app ready for use can be found in the build folder.

It packages the app as a AppImages

Download an application, make it executable, and run! No need to install. No system libraries or system preferences are altered.

Distribute your desktop Linux application in the AppImage format and win users running all common Linux distributions. Package once and run everywhere. Reach users on all major desktop distributions.

Fore more details on how to run in Linux after download this see below

AppImages can be downloaded and run without installation or the need for root rights.

Making it executable You can make the appImage executable as follows:

chmod a+x exampleName.AppImage Executing it You can execute an appImage as follows:

./exampleName.AppImage