UDForge

UDForge is a utility for building desktop applications with Universal Dashboard. You can install UDForge from the PowerShell Gallery.

Install-Module UniversalDashboard.Forge

Building a desktop application

UDForge accepts either a ps1 file or path to include in the desktop app. You can specify the version of PowerShell to run, icons to use, name of the application and output path.

Requirements

• NodeJS

• PowerShell Core or Windows PowerShell

• Git

Dashboard

Your dashboard file needs to be called dashboard.ps1, listen on the specified port and use the -Wait parameter of Start-UDDashboard.

Usage

Package a single ps1 file as a desktop application.

Import-Module UniversalDashboard.Forge
New-UDDesktopApp -Path .\dashboard.ps1 -OutputPath .\out -Name MyApp
.\out\MyApp\out\myapp-win32-x64\MyApp.exe

Package a folder as a desktop application. UDForge will verify that the folder contains a dashboard.ps1 file. This file should call Start-UDDashboard.

Import-Module UniversalDashboard.Forge
New-UDDesktopApp -Path .\dashboard -OutputPath .\out -Name MyApp
.\out\MyApp\out\myapp-win32-x64\MyApp.exe

Installer

An installer is also created in the output directory. This contains all the files necessary for electron, the app and Universal Dashboard.

.\MyApp\out\make\squirrel.windows\x64\myapp-1.0.0 Setup.exe