Build an Electron app with electron-vite

Vite support for Electron is now available through the electron-vite package, enhancing Electron app development by integrating Vite's speed and capabilities along with new Electron-specific features. This addition improves build performance at development time, offering benefits like hot reloading for main and preload scripts, sensible default configurations for building Electron apps, and asset handling for static assets. The article provides a practical tutorial on building a simple Electron app with a React frontend, demonstrating the ease of converting a React web app into an Electron desktop app using electron-vite. By leveraging Electron's native integrations, developers can connect web app components to the operating system's native capabilities, such as opening files directly from the user's local file system. The tutorial also highlights the advantages of Vite’s dev server, including fast hot reloading, and discusses the challenges developers would face without electron-vite, such as manual app restarts upon code changes. The full source code for the demonstrated image filter app is available on GitHub, emphasizing the practicality and efficiency of using electron-vite for Electron app development.