cypress/packages/electron

Electron

This is the lib responsible for installing + building Electron. This enables us to develop with the Electron shell that will match how the final compiled Cypress binary looks 1:1.

It does this by using symlinks while in development.

Installing

The Desktop GUI's dependencies can be installed with:

cd packages/desktop-gui
npm install

Building

npm run build

Note: npm run build just installs Electron binary for your OS specific platform