Electron ​

I use Tauri currently to build desktop apps. Tauri wraps over Solid web UI.

Wails is great too if you like Go.

I try to minimize amount of Electron apps I run on my mac as I find them wasteful in how they bundle entire chrome JS engine with every app. Hopefully soon, I won't be running any more Electron apps on my computer.

I also use SwiftUI to build certain native windows when Tauri/web stack is not enough.

osx-sign is nice for code signing the app.

OSS apps ​

• Actual - Budgeting app. Local first architecture.
• Twizzle - Desktop app for Twitter DM & composing tweets from the menubar.
• HTTP Toolkit Desktop

Nice templates ​

• Vite Electron Builder Boilerplate - Secure boilerplate for Electron app based on Vite.
• Electron Vite
• Vite-SolidJS-Electron
• Vite-Vue-Electron
• Electron Esbuild

Notes ​

• Simplest way to add auto-updating to Electron app is to create an empty public GitHub repo, and use update-electron-app. Publish new builds with GitHub releases.

Links ​

• Defeating Electron
• Electron Fiddle - Easiest way to get started with Electron. (Web)
• Electron WebPack
• electron-util - Useful utilities for developing Electron apps and modules.
• electron-boilerplate - Boilerplate to kickstart creating an app with Electron.
• electron-with-server-example - Example Electron app with a backend server all wired up via IPC.
• template-electron - Template for starting a new electron app quickly.
• Electron Forge - Complete tool for creating, publishing, and installing modern Electron applications.
• When a rewrite isn’t: rebuilding Slack on the desktop (2019)
• Electron Performance Checklist
• Electron Notarize - Notarize your macOS Electron Apps.
• Electron React Boilerplate - Uses Electron, React, Redux, React Router, Webpack and React Hot Loader for rapid application development.
• Make Your Electron App Feel at Home Everywhere (2019)
• electron-builder-notarize - Notarize Electron applications using electron-builder.
• Collection of apps built on Electron (Code)
• Desktop apps with Electron course
• Libraries Slack Desktop Uses
• Debugging Electron Memory Usage
• Thumbnailing in Isolate: Background workers in Electron (2019)
• Why I chose Electron.js for my side business (2020) (HN)
• Nuxtron - Nuxt.js + Electron.
• hyperupdate - P2P Electron updater with binary diffing built in.
• Electron Alternatives - Listing cross platform desktop GUI App development options.
• Making Electron apps feel native on Mac (2021)
• WebView2 and Electron (2021)
• Portal Windows - Render and position native windows as simply as you render and position tooltips in your React app.
• electron/remote - Bridge JavaScript objects from the main process to the renderer process in Electron.
• Ask HN: How do you create a cross-platform GUI without using Electron? (2021)
• Next.js + Electron
• Notes on running Electron (2021)
• Electron Chrome Extension - Implementation of Chrome extension APIs for Electron.
• Electron Settings - Simple persistent user settings framework for Electron.
• Electron is very broken way of building cross platform apps (2021)
• electron-log - Simple logging module for your Electron application.
• astilectron - Electron app that provides an API over a TCP socket that allows executing Electron's method as well as capturing Electron's events.
• Yerba - Electron Turborepo monorepo with Next.js, Typescript, Vite and more.
• Best way to build Electron apps with security in mind
• Electron DevTools Installer - Easy way to ensure Chrome DevTools extensions into Electron.
• Ask HN: Why aren't there any real alternatives to Electron? (2022)
• Create Svelte+Electron App
• Electron Inject - Inject JavaScript into closed source electron applications e.g. to enable developer tools for debugging.
• Electron Quick Start for Mac App Store
• ToDesktop - Convert your Web App to a Desktop App in 2 minutes. (Twitter)
• Svelte Electron Boilerplate
• Vite + SolidJS + Electron boilerplate
• Electron + Vite + React + Sass + boilerplate
• Making a better auto updating prompt for Electron apps
• VueUse Electron - Enables electron renderer process API as Vue Composition API.
• Vite Electron Plugin
• secure-electron-store - Secure electron-store that uses ipcMain/ipcRenderer.
• Electron Build Tools for Visual Studio Code - Collection of useful VS Code helpers for working with the Electron codebase.
• Electron App Patcher - Patch an Electron app after an update to apply a change.
• electron/universal - Create universal macOS Electron applications.
• Electron ASAR - Simple extensive tar-like archive format with indexing.
• Debugtron - Debug in-production Electron based app.
• Electron Context Menu
• electron/osx-sign - Codesign Electron macOS apps.
• Electron Fiddle - Get started with Electron. (HN)
• Electron Discord
• Creating multi-window Electron apps using React portals (2023)
• Nano Electron store - Minimalistic, secure, type-safe data store for Electron.
• Bundle a precompiled binary or native file into an electron app
• unplugin-auto-expose - Plugins for automatic exposeInMainWorld everything you exported from preload and easily importing exposed api in renderer.
• Electron Rebuild - Package to rebuild native Node.js modules against the currently installed Electron version.
• Electron Browser Shell - Minimal, tabbed web browser with support for Chrome extensions—built on Electron.