main.js

'use strict';

const electron = require('electron');
// Module to control application life.
const app = electron.app;
// Module to create native browser window.
const BrowserWindow = electron.BrowserWindow;

// Keep a global reference of the window object, if you don't, the window will
// be closed automatically when the JavaScript object is garbage collected.
let mainWindow;

// Define global reference to the python server (which we'll start next).
let server;

function createWindow() {
    // Start python server.
    if (process.platform === 'win32') {
        // If on Windows, use the batch command (py -3 ./server.py).
        server = require('child_process').spawn('py', ['-3', '-m', 'pynetworktables2js', '--robot', 'roborio-1418-frc.local']);
    } else {
        // If on unix-like/other OSes, use bash command (python3 ./server.py).
        server = require('child_process').spawn('python3', ['-m', 'pynetworktables2js', '--robot', 'roborio-1418-frc.local']);
    }

	// Create the browser window.
	mainWindow = new BrowserWindow({
		width: 3000, // Will scale down to fit screen
		height: 750,
		// The window is hidden until the python server is ready
		show: false
	});

	// Move window to top (left) of screen.
	mainWindow.setPosition(0, 0);

	// Load window.
	mainWindow.loadURL('http://localhost:8888');

	// Once the python server is ready, load window contents.
    // TODO: fix this abnomination
	mainWindow.once('ready-to-show', function() {
		mainWindow.loadURL('http://localhost:8888');
		mainWindow.once('ready-to-show', function() {
			// Once it has reloaded, show the window
			mainWindow.show();
		});
	});

    // Remove menu
    mainWindow.setMenu(null);

	// Emitted when the window is closed.
	mainWindow.on('closed', function() {
		// Dereference the window object, usually you would store windows
		// in an array if your app supports multi windows, this is the time
		// when you should delete the corresponding element.
		mainWindow = null;
	});
}

// This method will be called when Electron has finished
// initialization and is ready to create browser windows.
app.on('ready', createWindow);

// Quit when all windows are closed.
app.on('window-all-closed', function() {
	// On OS X it is common for applications and their menu bar
	// to stay active until the user quits explicitly with Cmd + Q.
    // Not like we're creating a consumer application though.
    // Let's just kill it anyway.

    // If you want to restore the standard behavior, uncomment the next line.
    // if (process.platform !== 'darwin')

    app.quit();
});

app.on('quit', function() {
    console.log('Application quit. Killing tornado server.');

    // Kill tornado server child process.
    server.kill('SIGINT');
});

app.on('activate', function() {
	// On OS X it's common to re-create a window in the app when the
	// dock icon is clicked and there are no other windows open.
	if (mainWindow === null) {
		createWindow();
	}
});