electron

The Electron framework lets you write cross-platform desktop applications
using JavaScript, HTML and CSS. It is based on Node.js and
Chromium and is used by the Atom
editor and many other apps.

Follow @ElectronJS on Twitter for important
announcements.

This project adheres to the Contributor Covenant code of conduct.
By participating, you are expected to uphold this code. Please report unacceptable
behavior to electron@github.com.

Downloads

Prebuilt binaries and debug symbols of Electron for Linux, Windows and macOS can
be found on the releases page.

You can also use npm to install prebuilt electron
binaries:

# Install the `electron` command globally in your $PATH
npm install electron-prebuilt -g

# Install as a development dependency
npm install electron-prebuilt --save-dev

Mirrors

• China

Documentation

Guides and the API reference are located in the
docs directory. It also
contains documents describing how to build and contribute to Electron.

Documentation Translations

• Brazilian Portuguese
• Korean
• Japanese
• Spanish
• Simplified Chinese
• Traditional Chinese
• Turkish
• Ukrainian
• Russian
• French

Quick Start

Clone and run the electron/electron-quick-start
repository to see a minimal Electron app in action.

Community

You can ask questions and interact with the community in the following
locations:

• electron category on the Atom
  forums
• #atom-shell channel on Freenode
• Atom channel on Slack
• electron-br (Brazilian Portuguese)
• electron-kr (Korean)
• electron-jp (Japanese)
• electron-tr (Turkish)
• electron-id (Indonesia)

Check out awesome-electron
for a community maintained list of useful example apps, tools and resources.