Hello World for Electron about paranext HOT 9 CLOSED

For Add electron-react-boilerplate there is a PR #8 but it hasn't merge since we aren't sure yet where things go in terms of repo organisation.

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On top of PR #8 (branch feature/electron-react) there is a branch feature/wsl that adds help for setting up WSL2 on Windows so one machine can develop and test on Windows and Linux. No PR yet, see above comment about merging.

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Electron Forge Maker package types: AppX, deb, DMG, FLatpak, Pkg, RPM, Snapcraft, Squirrel.Windows, WiX MSI, Zip.
Electron Bulider distributable package types:

• macOS: dmg, mas, mas-dev, pkg, 7z, zip, tar.xz, tar.lz, tar.gz, tar.bz2, dir
• Windows: nsis, nsis-web (Web installer), portable (portable app without installation), appx, msi, squirrel, 7z, zip, tar.xz, tar.lz, tar.gz, tar.bz2, dir
• Linux: AppImage, flatpak, snap, deb, rpm, freebsd, pacman, p5p, apk, 7z, zip, tar.xz, tar.lz, tar.gz, tar.bz2, dir

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PR #11 adds publishing artifacts to a GH Release. We don't yet have secrets available to add on GH for signing. This PR should complete this card.

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Runs on Windows 11:

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Runs on MacOS:

Thanks @darren8c for testing this. Not sure which OS version.

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On Linux Ubuntu v22+ you need libfuse2 to run .AppImage applications.
sudo apt install libfuse2
There are also other dependencies needed to run:
sudo apt install libnss3 libgtk-3-0 libgbm1 libasound2
At this point the app just reports Trace/breakpoint trap and quits. (Note it works fine on my Ubuntu-setup-to-build but not on a fresh Ubuntu install.) This is already enough of a barrier since .AppImage are meant to just work on any Linux distro. Looks there might be a way to add dependencies to the build.

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PR #10 fixes the publishable release for .AppImage files on Linux by including used dependencies.

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Runs on a clean Ubuntu v22.04 install:

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