Web Tech
Use HTML, CSS, and JavaScript with Chromium and Node.js to build your app.
Open Source
Electron is open source; maintained by GitHub and an active community.
Cross Platform
Electron apps build and run on Mac, Windows, and Linux.
The hard parts made easy
Automatic updates
Crash
reporting
Windows installers
Debugging & profiling
Native menus & notifications
Built on Electron
With Electron, creating a desktop application for your company or idea is easy. Initially developed for GitHub's Atom editor, Electron has since been used to create applications by companies like Microsoft, Facebook, Slack, and Docker.
Developers bring ideas to life
Interesting open source apps are built on Electron.
- Friends — Peer to peer chat
- Hearthdash — Hearthstone tracker
- Kart — Frontend for RetroArch
- Mancy — REPL app
- Monu — Process monitoring app
- Mojibar — Emoji searcher
- Chronocube — Rubik's cube timer
- Explorer — Statistics the easy way
- Light Table — Customizable IDE
- Playback — Experimental video player
- ScreenCat — WebRTC screensharing
- Geojsonapp — Preview geojson files
- Menubar — Create menubar apps
- Yeoman App — Scaffold projects
- Laverna — Write & organize Markdown
Get started with Electron
Electron: v0.37.5
Node: 5.10.0
Chromium: 49.0.2623.75
V8: 4.9.385.28
Spin up the Quick Start app to see Electron in action:
# Clone the Quick Start repository
$ git clone https://github.com/electron/electron-quick-start
# Go into the repository
$ cd electron-quick-start
# Install the dependencies and run
$ npm install && npm start
You can also checkout the full Quick Start Tutorial or download a prebuilt binary and read the documentation.