Overview
Setting up Electron for Linux desktop development can be frustrating, as missing system-level display libraries often cause blank windows or immediate crashes during launch. This package offers a clean, lightweight, and fully working Electron 37.4 environments running perfectly on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS.
The template comes with standard Node.js active LTS and all required Chromium-rendering dependencies (like libasound, libnss3, and Gtk3) pre-installed. It bypasses the common headless or display permission errors, ensuring your "npm start" opens the desktop window smoothly right out of the box.
Whether you are building a personal utility tool, a desktop client for your SaaS application, or benchmarking Linux performance for Electron apps, this boilerplate saves you hours of debugging missing apt packages.
Highlights
- Pre-configured with Electron 37.4 and Node.js on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS.
- All required X11, Gtk3, and Chromium display dependencies are pre-installed.
- Ready-to-run environment with zero setup needed to launch your desktop app.
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64-bit (x86) Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
An AMI is a virtual image that provides the information required to launch an instance. Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) instances are virtual servers on which you can run your applications and workloads, offering varying combinations of CPU, memory, storage, and networking resources. You can launch as many instances from as many different AMIs as you need.
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Usage instructions
SSH to the instance and login as 'ubuntu' using the key specified at launch.
To run the Electron 37.4 boilerplate, follow these steps:
Switch to root user: sudo su
Share display permissions: export DISPLAY=:0
Navigate to the project directory: cd /root/my-electron-app
Install dependencies (if needed): npm install
Start the application safely: npm start -- --no-sandbox
Note: Running Linux GUI apps via SSH requires X11 forwarding enabled (ssh -X) or an active VNC/RDP desktop session on the instance.
Additional information on connecting via SSH may be found at: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/AccessingInstancesLinux.html
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