system_assignation/node_modules/@electron-forge/cli

CLI

Installation

Electron forge's CLI is separate from the core module, to install it you will have to use the @electron-forge/cli module from NPM.

# NPM
npm i -g @electron-forge/cli

# Yarn
yarn global add @electron-forge/cli

Overview

At a high level the CLI module is just a proxy to the raw API commands. Almost all the configuration is still done in your Forge Config, the CLI just provides a handy way to trigger all the core functionality of Electron Forge and you should definitely use it.

Commands

Please note these commands are sorted in alphabetical order, the ones you probably need to care about are start, package, make, and publish.

Import

Maps to electronForge.import, will attempt to take an existing Electron app and make it Forge compatible. Normally this just creates a base Electron Forge config and adds the required dependencies.

There are no flags for the Import command

Init

Maps to electronForge.init, will initialize a new Forge powered application in the given directory defaults to `.`.

Please note if you want to use a template, it must be installed globally before running the init command.

Flag	Value	Required	Description
--template	Template Name	No	Name of the template to use to make this new app
--copy-ci-files	N/A	No	Set if you want to copy templated CI files for Travis CI and Appveyor

Install

Maps to electronForge.install, will attempt to install the Electron app that is published at the given GitHub repository. This command is just a helper for installing other applications quickly. E.g.

electron-forge install atom/atom

Lint

Maps to electronForge.lint, will run the lint command that your package.json exposes. If the exit code is 0 no output is shown, otherwise the error output will be displayed.

There are no flags for the Lint command

Make

Maps to electronForge.make, will make distributables for your application based on your Forge config and the parameters you pass in.

Flag	Value	Required	Description
--arch	Architecture, e.g. x64	No	Target architecture to make for
--platform	Platform, e.g. mas	No	Target platform to make for, please note you normally can only target platform X from platform X. This defaults to the platform you're running on the "host" platform.
--targets	Comma separated list of maker names	No	Override your make targets for this run. The maker name is the full node module name, e.g. @electron-forge/maker-deb.
--skip-package	N/A	No	Set if you want to skip the packaging step, useful if you are running sequential makes and want to save time

Package

Maps to electronForge.package, will package your application into a platform specific format and put the result in a folder. Please note that this does not make a distributable format. To make proper distributables, please use the make command.

Flag	Value	Required	Description
--arch	Architecture, e.g. x64	No	Target architecture to package for. Defaults to the host arch.
--platform	Platform, e.g. mas	No	Target platform to package for. Defaults to the host platform.

Publish

Maps to electronForge.publish, will attempt to make the forge application and then publish it to the publish targets defined in your forge config.

If you want to publish previously created make artifacts you will have to use the dry-run options explained below.

Flag	Value	Required	Description
--target	Comma separated list of publisher names	No	Override your publish targets for this run
--dry-run	N/A	No	Triggers a publish dry run which saves state and doesn't upload anything
--from-dry-run	N/A	No	Attempts to publish artifacts from any dry runs saved on disk

Start

Maps to electronForge.start, will launch the Forge powered application in the given directory defaults to `.`.

If you type rs and hit enter in the same terminal where you ran the start command, the running app will be terminated and restarted.

Flag	Value	Required	Description
--app-path	Path to your app from CWD	No	Override the path to the Electron app to launch defaults to `.`
--enable-logging	N/A	No	Enable advanced logging. This will log internal Electron things
--run-as-node	N/A	No	Run the Electron app as a Node.JS script
--inspect-electron	N/A	No	Triggers inspect mode on Electron to allow debugging the main process
--	extra arguments	No	Any additional arguments to pass to Electron or the app itself. For example: -- --my-app-argument