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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
Visual Studio Code 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 [email protected].

 Installation

To install prebuilt Electron binaries, use npm.
The preferred method is to install Electron as a development dependency in your
app:

sh
npm install electron --save-dev


For more installation options and troubleshooting tips, see
installation. For info on how to manage Electron versions in your apps, see
Electron versioning.

 Platform support

Each Electron release provides binaries for macOS, Windows, and Linux.

 macOS (Ventura and up): Electron provides 64-bit Intel and Apple Silicon / ARM binaries for macOS.
 Windows (Windows 10 and up): Electron provides x64 (amd64) and arm64 binaries for Windows.
 Linux: Electron provides x64 (amd64) and arm64 binaries for Linux. Electron supports major Linux distributions (e.g., Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian) in versions that are still supported by both Chromium and the distro maker (without requiring a paid subscription). The prebuilt binaries are built on Ubuntu.

In general, Electron tries to align with Chromium on platform support.

 Electron Fiddle

Use Electron Fiddle
to build, run, and package small Electron experiments, to see code examples for all of Electron's APIs, and
to try out different versions of Electron. It's designed to make the start of your journey with
Electron easier.

 Resources for learning Electron

 electronjs.org/docs - All of Electron's documentation
 electron/fiddle - A tool to build, run, and package small Electron experiments

 Programmatic usage

Most people use Electron from the command line, but if you require electron inside
your Node app (not your Electron app) it will return the file path to the
binary. Use this to spawn Electron from Node scripts:

javascript
const electron = require('electron')
const proc = require('node:child_process')

// will print something similar to /Users/maf/.../Electron
console.log(electron)

// spawn Electron
const child = proc.spawn(electron)


 Mirrors

 China

See the Advanced Installation Instructions to learn how to use a custom mirror.

 Documentation translations

We crowdsource translations for our documentation via Crowdin.
We currently accept translations for Chinese (Simplified), French, German, Japanese, Portuguese,
Russian, and Spanish.

 Contributing

If you are interested in reporting/fixing issues and contributing directly to the code base, please see CONTRIBUTING.md for more information on what we're looking for and how to get started.

 Community

Info on reportin

Top issues

Latest release

Release Notes for v45.2.3

 Other Changes

 Backported fixes from upstream ANGLE, Chromium, Dawn, FFmpeg, minigbm, PDFium, Skia and V8. 55592

 Documentation

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