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thandClaude Opus 4.6 b9d610b612 shopping: UI strings all English
Picker dialog, hamburger menu entry, phone page and help section
still had German labels from the original request ("Einkaufsliste",
"keine aktive Liste", etc.). The rest of the app's UI is English,
so align everything here: menu entry is "Shopping list", dialog +
phone page copy translated, help references match. Trigger tags
stay as-is — both #einkauf and #shopping keep working so users with
either convention aren't disrupted.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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hyprcrd — Electron Desktop App

Wraps the PHP backend in an Electron shell. A static PHP binary is bundled per platform so users don't need PHP installed.

How it works

  1. On launch, the app starts PHP's built-in server on a random port (127.0.0.1)
  2. router.php replaces Apache's .htaccess rewrite rules
  3. A BrowserWindow loads http://127.0.0.1:<port>/
  4. On quit, the PHP process is killed cleanly

User data (database + uploads) is stored outside the app bundle so it survives updates:

  • Dev: electron/appdata/
  • Linux: ~/.config/hyprcrd/data/
  • macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/hyprcrd/data/
  • Windows: %APPDATA%/hyprcrd/data/

Development

cd electron
npm install
npm start          # launches the app using system or bundled PHP

Requires PHP 8.1+ with pdo_sqlite and zip extensions — either on the system PATH or as a static binary in php-bin/<platform>/.

Bundling PHP

Static PHP binaries are not checked into git. Fetch them before building:

./fetch-php.sh     # downloads ~20MB per platform from static-php-cli

Or place them manually (see php-bin/README.md for sources):

php-bin/linux/php
php-bin/darwin/php
php-bin/win32/php.exe

The app prefers the bundled binary. If none is found, it falls back to system PHP. If neither exists, a dialog tells the user what to install.

Building distributables

npm run dist

Uses electron-builder. Output:

Platform Format Location
macOS .dmg dist/
Windows NSIS dist/
Linux AppImage dist/

File structure

electron/
  main.js          Electron main process — spawns PHP, creates window
  preload.js       Exposes window.hyprcrdElectron (platform, isElectron)
  router.php       PHP built-in server router (replaces .htaccess)
  fetch-php.sh     Downloads static PHP binaries for all platforms
  php-bin/         Platform-specific PHP binaries (gitignored)