electron / dependent-repos

Public GitHub repos that depend on Electron. spiritual successor to https://github.com/electron/repos-using-electron

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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:

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 (Catalina and up): Electron provides 64-bit Intel and ARM binaries for macOS. Apple Silicon support was added in Electron 11.
• Windows (Windows 10 and up): Electron provides ia32 (x86), x64 (amd64), and arm64 binaries for Windows. Windows on ARM support was added in Electron 5.0.8. Support for Windows 7, 8 and 8.1 was removed in Electron 23, in line with Chromium's Windows deprecation policy.
• Linux: The prebuilt binaries of Electron are built on Ubuntu 20.04. They have also been verified to work on:
  • Ubuntu 18.04 and newer
  • Fedora 32 and newer
  • Debian 10 and newer

Quick start & 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.

Alternatively, clone and run the electron/electron-quick-start repository to see a minimal Electron app in action:

git clone https://github.com/electron/electron-quick-start
cd electron-quick-start
npm install
npm start

Resources for learning Electron

• electronjs.org/docs - All of Electron's documentation
• electron/fiddle - A tool to build, run, and package small Electron experiments
• electron/electron-quick-start - A very basic starter Electron app
• electronjs.org/community#boilerplates - Sample starter apps created by the community

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:

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 reporting bugs, getting help, finding third-party tools and sample apps, and more can be found on the Community page.

License

MIT

When using Electron logos, make sure to follow OpenJS Foundation Trademark Policy.

dependent-repos's Issues

Collect new dependency data from Libraries.io

libraries.io just released a new dataset! librariesio/libraries.io#2011

https://zenodo.org/record/1196312#.WqklepMbNE4

Let's use this data set to collect a list of repo names that depend on Electron. Here's the gist of how to do that:

file="https://zenodo.org/record/1196312/files/Libraries.io-open-data-1.2.0.tar.gz"
curl $file | tar xvz
head -n 1 repository_dependencies.csv > electron.csv
cat repository_dependencies.csv | grep ",electron," >> electron.csv

Note: filenames above are not accurate

Get dependent repo list from GitHub instead of Libraries.io

We are currently using libraries.io data to produce a complete list of public GitHub repositories that depend on Electron. GitHub has this kind of data now and surfaces it on github.com, but I'm not sure that it's yet available via the GitHub API.

Version 10 of node.js has been released

Version 10 of Node.js (code name Dubnium) has been released! 🎊

To see what happens to your code in Node.js 10, Greenkeeper has created a branch with the following changes:

• Added the new Node.js version to your .travis.yml

If you’re interested in upgrading this repo to Node.js 10, you can open a PR with these changes. Please note that this issue is just intended as a friendly reminder and the PR as a possible starting point for getting your code running on Node.js 10.

More information on this issue

Greenkeeper has checked the engines key in any package.json file, the .nvmrc file, and the .travis.yml file, if present.

• engines was only updated if it defined a single version, not a range.
• .nvmrc was updated to Node.js 10
• .travis.yml was only changed if there was a root-level node_js that didn’t already include Node.js 10, such as node or lts/*. In this case, the new version was appended to the list. We didn’t touch job or matrix configurations because these tend to be quite specific and complex, and it’s difficult to infer what the intentions were.

For many simpler .travis.yml configurations, this PR should suffice as-is, but depending on what you’re doing it may require additional work or may not be applicable at all. We’re also aware that you may have good reasons to not update to Node.js 10, which is why this was sent as an issue and not a pull request. Feel free to delete it without comment, I’m a humble robot and won’t feel rejected 🤖

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