electron-web2usb

Demo how to connect to USB devices from Electron app and communicate with Salesforce org.

This is a minimal Electron application based on the Quick Start Guide within the Electron documentation.

This demo shows how to connect to USB devices from Electron app and communicate between the app and Salesforce Community.

Don't forget to rebuild node-usb libraties for your electron version otherwise it won't work!

To Use

To clone and run this repository you'll need Git and Node.js (which comes with npm) installed on your computer. From your command line:

# Clone this repository
git clone https://github.com/ygavrylenko/electron-web2usb.git
# Go into the repository
cd electron-quick-start
# Install dependencies
npm install
# Rebuilding node-usb libraries for current electron version
# Go to the usb folder of node-usb module
cd node_modules/usb/
#Run command to rebuild libraries
../.bin/node-gyp rebuild --target=5.0.7 --dist-url=https://electronjs.org/headers;
# Run the app
npm start

Set target device vendor_id and product_id

After executing npm start the app lists all available devices and shows the result in console (main.js) --> usb.getDeviceList() You can just pick approriate ids from output and check them on online databases like https://devicehunt.com/all-usb-vendors Alternatively Salesforce component will show you the real name of device using async function device.getStringDescriptor Set VENDOR_ID and PRODUCT_ID in preload.js (will be externalized in the next steps)

Set target community url

Change COMMUNITY_URL in main.js to access appropriate community