Chapter 1

Scaffold + First Run

grit new-desktop and the Wails dev loop.

~18 min total3 lessonsAssignment

By the end of this chapter you'll be able to

Scaffold a desktop project
Run wails dev
Build a release binary

Lessons

Module: Setup

Scaffolding

grit new-desktop walkthrough.

6measy

wails dev loop

Hot reload + dev tools.

6measy

First production build

wails build -nsis.

6measy

Chapter assignment

Build + install + uninstall

Scaffold `field-pos --desktop`, run `wails dev`, then `wails build -nsis`. Install the resulting Setup.exe, launch the app from the Start menu, uninstall via Settings.

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Lesson 1 takes ~6 min.

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