lively4-electron

An Electron shell for Lively4 — it loads the live world in a desktop window with a few things a plain browser tab can't offer:

• Fixed remote-debugging port (9222) for CDP tooling.
• Picker-free screen capture via desktopCapturer — no permission dialog.
• App-level microphone permission (for voice input).
• A dedicated Chromium profile, kept outside the served directory.
• A small window.lively4shell.invoke(channel, …) bridge to main-process capabilities (currently capture-screen).

It does not reimplement the server or its live-reload — it just spawns the existing lively4-server launcher, which owns the file-watch + restart loop.

Prerequisites

• lively4-core and lively4-server checked out together under one parent directory.
• Node.js and Git Bash (Windows).

Run

npm install
npm start

On launch the shell starts lively4-server (via bin/lively4W1.sh) if it isn't already running, waits for http://localhost:9005, then opens the world.

Configuration

Paths are currently set for a C:\Users\Stefan\lively\lively4 layout in main.js (LIVELY_DIR, server script) — adjust these for your checkout.