[SOLVED] Running my app locally on computer

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Hi! Currently When I Export An App I Make A Playcanvas Build Then Build An Electron App To Render The Link Is There A Way I Can Bypass The Playcanvas Link And Just Run It Locally Allowing For Offline Play?

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Hello @WilliamBoersma31 :wave:,

From PlayCanvas you can export build. That exported build you can run on your system and there are few different ways to do this…

Choose any of following way:

  1. Using Visual Studio code - live server plugin.
  2. Create Local PHP server using XAMPP (If windows) and you can run it.
  3. HTTP file server rejetto (Untested it should work)

I recommend you to choose 1st one its Hassle-Free

Hope it Helps! :slightly_smiling_face:

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The easiest way to have a standalone offline app that you can share is to use Electron to wrapper your HTML5 game/app as a native executable.

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Hey @yaustar thanks for the reply but can you include a link on how to do that?

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@yaustar I got electron already as stated in my original post i just don’t now how to wrapper my game

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I’m afraid you will have to refer to the Electron documentation and community for this

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Do you at least know how to turn the zip you get from playcanvas.com into something electron can load?

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As far as I know, you get the zip used for self hosting Self-hosting | Learn PlayCanvas

And unzip in your project for Electron.

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That Made It Very Simple Thanks I Just Had To Extract The Zip File Into The SRC File A Remove The Old Index.html

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As an addition to @yaustar’s replies, I would suggest Nativefier as one of the easiest ways to wrap your web app or game with electron.

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Ok I’m currently using forge and it works just fine for me

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