Manually create app menu (without the Close window menu item)

electron/main/index.ts

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import { app, BrowserWindow, shell, ipcMain, Menu, nativeTheme } from 'electron'
 import { release } from 'node:os'
 import { join } from 'node:path'
+import menu from './menu'
 
 // The built directory structure
 //
@@ -29,8 +30,8 @@ if (!process.env.VITE_DEV_SERVER_URL && !app.requestSingleInstanceLock()) {
     process.exit(0)
 }
 
-// remove default menu
+// Set custom application menu
-//Menu.setApplicationMenu(null)
+Menu.setApplicationMenu(menu)
 
 // Remove electron security warnings
 // This warning only shows in development mode

electron/main/menu.js

@@ -0,0 +1,103 @@
+const { app, Menu } = require('electron')
+
+const isMac = process.platform === 'darwin'
+
+const template = [
+    // { role: 'appMenu' }
+    ...(isMac ? [{
+        label: app.name,
+        submenu: [
+            { role: 'about' },
+            { type: 'separator' },
+            { role: 'services' },
+            { type: 'separator' },
+            { role: 'hide' },
+            { role: 'hideOthers' },
+            { role: 'unhide' },
+            { type: 'separator' },
+            { role: 'quit' }
+        ]
+    }] : []),
+    // { role: 'fileMenu' }
+    /*{
+        label: 'File',
+        submenu: [
+            isMac ? { role: 'close' } : { role: 'quit' }
+        ]
+    },*/
+    // { role: 'editMenu' }
+    {
+        label: 'Edit',
+        submenu: [
+            { role: 'undo' },
+            { role: 'redo' },
+            { type: 'separator' },
+            { role: 'cut' },
+            { role: 'copy' },
+            { role: 'paste' },
+            ...(isMac ? [
+                { role: 'pasteAndMatchStyle' },
+                { role: 'delete' },
+                { role: 'selectAll' },
+                { type: 'separator' },
+                {
+                    label: 'Speech',
+                    submenu: [
+                        { role: 'startSpeaking' },
+                        { role: 'stopSpeaking' }
+                    ]
+                }
+            ] : [
+                { role: 'delete' },
+                { type: 'separator' },
+                { role: 'selectAll' }
+            ])
+        ]
+    },
+    // { role: 'viewMenu' }
+    {
+        label: 'View',
+        submenu: [
+            { role: 'reload' },
+            { role: 'forceReload' },
+            { role: 'toggleDevTools' },
+            { type: 'separator' },
+            { role: 'resetZoom' },
+            { role: 'zoomIn' },
+            { role: 'zoomOut' },
+            { type: 'separator' },
+            { role: 'togglefullscreen' }
+        ]
+    },
+    // { role: 'windowMenu' }
+    {
+        label: 'Window',
+        submenu: [
+            { role: 'minimize' },
+            { role: 'zoom' },
+            ...(isMac ? [
+                { type: 'separator' },
+                { role: 'front' },
+                { type: 'separator' },
+                { role: 'window' }
+            ] : [
+                { role: 'close' }
+            ])
+        ]
+    },
+    {
+        role: 'help',
+        submenu: [
+            {
+                label: 'Learn More',
+                click: async () => {
+                    const { shell } = require('electron')
+                    await shell.openExternal('https://heynote.com')
+                }
+            }
+        ]
+    }
+]
+
+export default Menu.buildFromTemplate(template)
+