Merge pull request #450 from Budibase/electron-release-docs

docs for release

CONTRIBUTING.md

@@ -149,7 +149,25 @@ The backend schema, models and records are stored using PouchDB when developing
 
 ### Publishing Budibase to NPM
 
-You can publish all the latest versions of the monorepo packages by running:
+#### Testing In Electron
+
+At budibase, we pride ourselves on giving our users a fast, native and slick local development experience. As a result, we use the electron to provide a native GUI for the budibase builder. In order to release budibase out into the wild, you should test your changes in a packaged electron application. To do this, first build budibase from the root directory. 
+```
+yarn build
+```
+
+Now everything is built, you can package up your electron application.
+```
+cd packages/server
+yarn build:electron
+```
+
+Your new electron application will be stored in `packages/server/dist/<operating-system>`. Open up the executable and make sure everything is working smoothly.
+
+
+#### Publishing to NPM
+
+Once you are happy that your changes work in electron, you can publish all the latest versions of the monorepo packages by running:
 
 ```
 yarn publishnpm
@@ -157,6 +175,10 @@ yarn publishnpm
 
 from your root directory.
 
+#### CI Release
+
+After NPM has successfully published the budibase packages, a new tag will be pushed to master. This will kick off a github action (can be found at `.github/workflows/release.yml`) this will build and package the electron application for every OS (Windows, Mac, Linux). The binaries will be stored under the new tag on the [budibase releases page](https://github.com/Budibase/budibase/releases).
+
 ### Troubleshooting
 
 Sometimes, things go wrong. This can be due to incompatible updates on the budibase platform. To clear down your development environment and start again: 

packages/cli/package.json

@@ -29,5 +29,5 @@
     "uuid": "^7.0.3",
     "yargs": "^14.2.0"
   },
-  "gitHead": "4a7edd9ebe702c93e8b9da2b74e814d3bb1266e1"
+  "gitHead": "eff4fa93ca1db11b97b5fdedc0c488413e277eb8"
 }

packages/materialdesign-components/package.json

@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@
   ],
   "version": "0.1.8",
   "license": "MIT",
-  "gitHead": "e4e053cb6ff9a0ddc7115b44ccaa24b8ec41fb9a",
+  "gitHead": "eff4fa93ca1db11b97b5fdedc0c488413e277eb8",
   "dependencies": {
     "@material/card": "4.0.0"
   }

packages/server/package.json

@@ -95,5 +95,5 @@
       "./scripts/jestSetup.js"
     ]
   },
-  "gitHead": "4a7edd9ebe702c93e8b9da2b74e814d3bb1266e1"
+  "gitHead": "eff4fa93ca1db11b97b5fdedc0c488413e277eb8"
 }

packages/standard-components/package.json

@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
   ],
   "version": "0.1.8",
   "license": "MIT",
-  "gitHead": "e4e053cb6ff9a0ddc7115b44ccaa24b8ec41fb9a",
+  "gitHead": "eff4fa93ca1db11b97b5fdedc0c488413e277eb8",
   "dependencies": {
     "@beyonk/svelte-googlemaps": "^2.2.0",
     "fusioncharts": "^3.15.1-sr.1",