Investigate cra-craco-electron

[tjcouch-sil]

Investigate https://github.com/sillsdev/cra-craco-electron to determine if we want to restart our app on it.

• Cost from switching - how long will it take to switch now vs a year from now?
  • Investigate differences from CRA and see if we can adapt ERB
• Benefits from switching
• Drawbacks from switching

[irahopkinson]

Our repo with ERB already builds for the web. After npm run build (or more specifically npm run build:renderer), open /release/app/dist/renderer/index.html in a browser.

We would need to make some minor adjustments to exclude electron references but if we end up not using electron IPC then we probably don't need to do anything.

[irahopkinson]

If we need to develop exclusively on the web we can just add a script in package.json like "start:web": "cross-env NODE_ENV=development TS_NODE_TRANSPILE_ONLY=true webpack serve --config ./.erb/configs/webpack.config.web.dev.ts", and then create the .erb/configs/webpack.config.web.dev.ts file (we could eject a CRA boilerplate and adapt the webpack config from that).

However, developing React inside electron should cover just about every scenario. Once we have a feature working in electron we can then just run /release/app/dist/renderer/index.html with the appropriate backend to check its working the same.