the electron app should package the cli

[andrew]

Currently you can only use the npm module foragepm as the cli (unless you're running directly from source).

It'd be great to be able to add a foragepm command line that points at the electron app itself so you don't need node installed to use the cli if you have the electron app installed.

[andrew]

This article has some pointers on how to get the electron app to recognize if it's being ran from the cli. Then the menu bar will need a prompt to install a symlink to the app into the terminal, ipfs-desktop can be an example, adding windows support makes it more complex: https://github.com/ipfs/ipfs-desktop/tree/main/src/ipfs-on-path

An alternative approach may be to have the electron app prompt to install the command line node module, again ipfs-desktop has an example: https://github.com/ipfs/ipfs-desktop/tree/main/src/npm-on-ipfs

[olizilla]

I think having a menu option the user can click to get the cli is a reasonable pattern. I kinda prefer to have the cli tool and the app always be at the same version / be holistically in sync. But a prompt that just says "go do npm i -g foragepm" is less work to implement, and may appeal to the kinds of folks who would also be interested in running the cli anyway (at this early stage)