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Build cross-platform desktop apps with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS

Releases

$ npm i -D electron@latest
# Electron   11.3.0
# Node       12.18.3
# Chromium   87.0.4280.141

$ npm i -D electron@beta
# Electron   12.0.0-beta.28
# Node       14.15.1
# Chromium   89.0.4389.23

$ npm i -D electron-nightly
# Electron   13.0.0-nightly.20210222
# Node       14.15.4
# Chromium   90.0.4402.0

Apps users love, built with Electron

Visual Studio Code

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Thousands of organizations spanning all industries use Electron to build cross-platform software.

It's easier than you think

If you can build a website, you can build a desktop app. Electron is a framework for creating native applications with web technologies like JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. It takes care of the hard parts so you can focus on the core of your application.

Web Technologies

Electron uses Chromium and Node.js so you can build your app with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

Open Source

Electron is an open source project maintained by GitHub and an active community of contributors.

Cross Platform

Compatible with Mac, Windows, and Linux, Electron apps build and run on three platforms.

The hard parts made easy

Automatic updates Native menus & notifications Crash reporting Debugging & profiling Windows installers

Get started

To get started with Electron, check out the resources below. Learn how to wrap your web app with Electron, access all the APIs, and generate installers. Screenshot of Electron API Demos app

Explore the Electron APIs

The Electron API Demos app interactively demonstrates the most important features of the Electron API. See what's possible with Electron with sample code and helpful tips for building your app. Download from GitHub

Try more powerful experiments with 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. Then, 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 from GitHub See more info

Spin up the Quick Start app to see Electron in action:

A minimal Electron app with helpful notations.

# 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

Or dive deeper and read the documentation.

Need Help?

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Keyboard Shortcuts

Key	Action
`/`	Focus the search bar
`Esc`	Focus the search bar and cleans it
`↓`	Select the next search result
`↑`	Select the previous search result
`Enter`	Open the selected search result
`cmdEnter`	`Ctrl`+`Enter`	Open the selected search result in a new tab