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Build cross-platform desktop apps with

JavaScript, HTML, and CSS
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Web Technologies

Electron embeds Chromium and Node.js to enable web developers to create

desktop applications.

Cross Platform

Compatible with macOS, Windows, and Linux, Electron apps run on three
platforms across all supported architectures.

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Open Source

Electron is an open source project maintained by the OpenJS Foundation and an

active community of contributors.

Trusted by best-in-class apps

Popular consumer and rock-solid enterprise apps use Electron to power their desktop experiences.

Desktop development made

easy
Electron takes care of the hard parts so you can focus on the core of your
application.

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Native graphical user interfaces

Interact with your operating system's interfaces with Electron's main process APIs.
Customize your application window appearance, control application menus, or
alert users through dialogs or notifications.

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Automatic software updates

Send out software updates to your macOS and Windows users whenever you
release a new version with Electron's autoUpdater module, powered by Squirrel.

Application installers
Use community-supported tooling to generate platform-specific tooling like Apple
Disk Image (.dmg) on macOS, Windows Installer (.msi) on Windows, or RPM
Package Manager (.rpm) on Linux.

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App store distribution

Distribute your application to more users. Electron has first-class support for the
Mac App Store (macOS), the Microsoft Store (Windows), or the Snap Store (Linux).

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Crash reporting
Automatically collect JavaScript and native crash data from your users with the
crashReporter module. Use a third-party service to collect this data or set up your
own on-premise Crashpad server.

Use the tools you love

With the power of modern Chromium, Electron gives you an unopinionated blank
slate to build your app. Choose to integrate your favourite libraries and
frameworks from the front-end ecosystem, or carve your own path with bespoke
HTML code.

React Vue.js Next.js Tailwind CSS

Bootstrap Three.js Angular TypeScript

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webpack Playwright Testing Library Sass

NEW!

Electron Forge
Electron Forge is a batteries-included toolkit for building and publishing Electron
apps. Get your Electron app started the right way with first-class support for
JavaScript bundling and an extensible module ecosystem.

Get started Source code

$ npm init electron-app@latest my-app

✔ Locating custom template: "base"
✔ Initializing directory
✔ Preparing template
✔ Initializing template
✔ Installing template dependencies

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DIRECT DOWNLOAD

Installation
If you want to figure things out for yourself, you can install the Electron package
directly from the npm registry.

For a production-ready experience, install the latest stable version. If you want
something a bit more experimental, try the prerelease or nightly channels.

Stable

Prerelease

Nightly

$ npm install --save-dev electron@latest

# Electron 33.3.1
# Node 20.18.1
# Chromium 130.0.6723.170

EXPERIMENT WITH THE API

Electron Fiddle
Electron Fiddle lets you create and play with small Electron experiments. It greets
you with a quick-start template after opening — change a few things, choose the
version of Electron you want to run it with, and play around.

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Save your Fiddle either as a GitHub Gist or to a local folder. Once pushed to
GitHub, anyone can quickly try your Fiddle out by just entering it in the address
bar.

Download Source code

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