Spring Boot + Electron, a case study

• ostara

  46 295 8.9 TypeScript

  Ostara is a cross-platform desktop app for managing and monitoring Spring Boot applications using the Actuator API, providing comprehensive insights and effortless control.

  

We recently finished writing our desktop app for Spring Actuator, Ostara. Initially, we decided to rely on Electron's main process and write our "backend" in Node. We quickly hit roadblock after roadblock, until a decision was made to ditch the backend entirely, rewrite it in Spring Boot and Kotlin in the JVM ecosystem, and have the renderer communicate with it via REST.

• electron-builder

  42 13,345 9.3 TypeScript

  A complete solution to package and build a ready for distribution Electron app with “auto update” support out of the box

  

Ostara is based off of electron-react-boilerplate and uses electron-builder to package the application.

• SurveyJS

  surveyjs.io sponsored

  Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

  

• electron-react-boilerplate

  40 22,630 4.2 TypeScript

  A Foundation for Scalable Cross-Platform Apps

  

Ostara is based off of electron-react-boilerplate and uses electron-builder to package the application.

• shapeshift

  15 176 0.8 Kotlin

  A Kotlin/Java library for intelligent object mapping and conversion between objects.

  

We would be able to leverage our own JVM libraries, namely ShapeShift and a yet-unreleased framework we use for CRUD operations with traditional ORMs and ODMs.

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