livewallpaper

Cross-platform live desktop wallpaper for everyone, using react.

It's alot like uebersicht, but with react & electron.

With it you can make react components for your desktop!

You can control parent-styling (in settings/global.css) and make your own widgets (in settings/widgets), using the full power of nodejs, react, and electron.

STILL IN PROGRESS

making your own widgets

You can put node/es6 modules in settings/widgets and they should get added to the screen. I recommend naming the folder your package-name, and adding an index.js (and optionally a package.json) as the entry-point. Your default export should be a react compoonent. Here is a minimal demo:

import React from 'react'

const Hello = (props) => (
  <div className='widget Demo'>
    DEMO
  </div>
)

export default Hello

Put this in settings/widgets/demo/index.js

You will probably want some style. Make a file named settings/widgets/demo/style.css. make your index.js look like this:

import React from 'react'

export default class Hello extends React.Component {
  componentDidMount () {
    stylesheet(`${__dirname}/style.css`)
  }

  componentWillUnmount () {
    unstylesheet(`${__dirname}/style.css`)
  }

  render () {
    return (
      <div className='widget Demo'>
        DEMO
      </div>
    )
  }
}

For more examples, see settings/widgets.

todo

• improve live-reloading
• better reloading of css
• improve error-handling
• start livewallpaper with OS option
• work out better way to load assets, perhaps webpack?