Discover open-source libraries and UI components to speed up your Electron app development.
Find example apps built with Electron to learn patterns and see what's possible.
Locate packaging, distribution, and build tools to prepare your desktop app for release.
This repository, "Awesome Electron," is a curated list of useful resources for people building desktop apps with Electron. As the README explains, Electron is an open-source framework that lets you build desktop applications using web technologies, it combines the Chromium rendering engine, the same engine behind the Chrome browser, with the Node.js runtime so that code written in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript can run as a native Mac, Windows, or Linux app. The repository itself contains no actual code. It is a long Markdown document that links out to projects, tools, and writing that the maintainer has gathered. The README's table of contents groups everything into sections: example Apps made with Electron (open source and commercial), Boilerplates you can start a new project from, Tools, reusable Components, Documentation, Articles, Books, Videos, Podcasts, Community resources, and Related awesome-lists. Inside the Apps section there are dozens of examples ranging from text and Markdown editors and note-taking apps to terminals, SQL clients, music players, password managers, and download managers. You would use this repository when you are considering Electron for a project, when you want to see how other people have built something similar before starting your own, or when you are looking for a known-good boilerplate, tool, or article to learn from. It is part of the broader "awesome list" pattern on GitHub: a single, hand-maintained index people can return to instead of searching from scratch every time. The description notes submissions are currently paused. The full README is longer than what was provided.
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