README.md

Make C++ apps with a modern Web UI

About the template

This repo contains everything you need to setup any C++ app with a web interface.
We are using ElectronJS to pack the interface inside a window and AJAX APIs to communicate from the Interface to the app using Json requests

Preview

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How to use

First, make sure you have Node.js installed
npm --version

Install & Start app

Yarn	Node
yarn install yarn start	npm install npm start

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Changing app behavior

Basic operations :

• Add your sources inside the template
• Compile with server.cpp and listener.cpp
• name your executable app.exe
  
  

Default port is 444
You can change the port in the .env file

Handling AJAX Requests

Sending requests from Electron :

It is recommended to have a script folder to handle Json requests between the UI and your executable. You can have a look inside renderer.js to see how it works.
Basically we're sending an API request on an endpoint which is listened by the c++ server file server.cpp

Receiving requests on C++ side :

Have a look inside listener.cpp, there is a basic processRequest() function which processes the received json request.
From there, you should be able to feed the output to your other functions