Web Tech
Use HTML, CSS, and JavaScript with Chromium and Node.js to build your app.
Open Source
Electron is open source; mantained 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 Slack, Mapbox and Facebook.
Developers bring ideas to life
Interesting open source tools are built on Electron.
Get started with Electron
Getting started with Electron is easy. Download a prebuilt binary or use npm to install from the command line. Full documentation is in the repository.
# Install the `electron` command globally
npm install electron-prebuilt -g
# Install as a development dependency
npm install electron-prebuilt --save-dev