sindresorhus/awesome-electron

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Useful resources for creating apps with Electron

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Rosefinch - Store and run SQL queries.

Hyper stars39.4k - Terminal.

Nota - Pro writing app designed for local Markdown files.

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Kap stars15.7k - Screen recorder with GIF support.

Beaker stars6.6k - Browser with peer-to-peer web protocols.

SpaceRadar stars1.2k - Interactive disk space and memory visualization.

Jun 20th - Jun 26th, 2022

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RunJS - Playground for JavaScript and TypeScript.

Jan 31st - Feb 6th, 2022

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linked stars583 - Daily journal.

Browserosaurus stars1.1k - Browser prompter for macOS.

Oct 4th - Oct 10th, 2021

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VIR stars121 - Intelligent time manager with automatic planning.

Jun 28th - Jul 4th, 2021

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For Electron

UpdateRocks! - Auto-update service. Free for open source projects.

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Other

Heroic Games Launcher stars4k - Alternative Epic games launcher.

May 31st - Jun 6th, 2021

Articles

Making Electron apps feel native on Mac

May 3rd - May 9th, 2021

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Other

Lotus - Keep up with GitHub notifications without stress.

Boilerplates

vite-electron-builder stars1.4k - Secure boilerplate for Electron app based on Vite. TypeScript + Vue/React/Angular/Svelte/Vanilla.

Apr 5th - Apr 11th, 2021

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SpaceEye stars272 - Live satellite imagery for your desktop background.

Mar 15th - Mar 21st, 2021

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Discord - Voice and text chat.

Mar 1st - Mar 7th, 2021

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Yana stars178 - Notebook app with rich-text notes, nested note organization and global search.

Feb 15th - Feb 21st, 2021

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Dynobase - AWS DynamoDB GUI.

Dec 21st - Dec 27th, 2020

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Coloban - All-in-one project management tool with chats, Kanban, Gantt, calls, screenshare, and more.

Dec 7th - Dec 13th, 2020

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Hawkpass stars56 - Password generator.

Nov 16th - Nov 22nd, 2020

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Graviton Editor stars913 - Cross-platform code editor.

Oct 19th - Oct 25th, 2020

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Other

Cleavr - Provision servers and deploy web apps.

Sep 21st - Sep 27th, 2020

Podcasts

The Changelog #216: GitHub's Electron with Zeke Sikelianos

Sep 14th - Sep 20th, 2020

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Other

Mouseless stars104 - Keyboard shortcut training and look-up.

Glyphfinder stars116 - Unicode character search.

Jun 15th - Jun 21st, 2020

awesome-electronjs-hacking stars405

May 11th - May 17th, 2020

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Beekeeper Studio stars11.6k - Cross-platform SQL editor and database manager.

Apr 20th - Apr 26th, 2020

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Other

LightProxy stars2.7k - Web debugging proxy.

Apr 6th - Apr 12th, 2020

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RxDB stars18.1k - A realtime NoSQL database.

Mar 9th - Mar 15th, 2020

Boilerplates

secure-electron-template stars1.3k - Security-focused boilerplate for creating apps with React, Redux, Webpack, and i18next.

Mar 2nd - Mar 8th, 2020

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Other

Taskade - Realtime organization and collaboration tool for distributed teams with tasks, notes, and chat.

Gitify stars3.8k - GitHub notifications in your menubar.

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For Electron

electronegativity stars773 - Identify misconfigurations and security anti-patterns.

Feb 10th - Feb 16th, 2020

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Other

MQTTX stars2.2k - Client for MQTT, which is a lightweight messaging protocol.

Pomodoro stars218 - Timer based on the Pomodoro Technique.

Sia-UI - Decentralized file storage system based on cryptocurrency technology.

Sabaki stars2k - Go/Baduk/Weiqi board.

Swifty stars725 - Password manager.

Jan 20th - Jan 26th, 2020

Videos

Make Your Electron App Feel at Home Everywhere - Tips on making your app feel more native on macOS, Windows, and Linux without sacrificing your own style.

Articles

Notarizing your Electron app - How to configure your app packaging for Apple's notarization.

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Other

massCode stars2k - Code snippet manager for developers.

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For Electron

electronmon stars64 - Monitor and reload apps out-of-process during development.

Jan 13th - Jan 19th, 2020

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ExifCleaner stars959 - Clean image metadata with drag and drop.

Dec 30th - Jan 5th, 2020

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Other

Upcount stars300 - Invoicing.

Articles

Migrating Slack's Desktop App to BrowserView - Slack rewrote their Electron app with BrowserView, Redux, Rx, and TypeScript, to fix its performance problems.

Books

Electron in Action 💲

Nov 25th - Dec 1st, 2019

Apps

Other

FATpick - Guitar tablature viewer that scores your performance as you play along.

Oct 7th - Oct 13th, 2019

Apps

Other

Notion - All-in-one workspace for your notes, tasks, wikis, and databases.

Sep 23rd - Sep 29th, 2019

Tools

Using Electron

jest-electron stars137 - Run and debug Jest unit tests in a browser environment.

Sep 16th - Sep 22nd, 2019

Tools

For Electron

adblocker-electron - Block ads and trackers.

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Other

Gmail Desktop stars597 - Unofficial Gmail app.

Moon Modeler - Schema design tool for MongoDB, Mongoose, and MariaDB.

Aug 19th - Aug 25th, 2019

awesome-nodejs stars47k

Jul 29th - Aug 4th, 2019

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Other

Franz stars4.2k - Skype, Slack, Hangouts, WhatsApp, Grape, Telegram, FB Messenger, Hipchat in the same app.

Jun 24th - Jun 30th, 2019

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Other

Mingo - MongoDB GUI.

Jun 17th - Jun 23rd, 2019

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Other

MusicPlus - Free music app for macOS and Windows.

Tools

For Electron

trilogy stars242 - TypeScript SQLite database layer with support for both native C++ and pure JavaScript backends.

Jun 10th - Jun 16th, 2019

Tools

For Electron

debugtron stars815 - Debug in-production Electron-based apps.

electron-chrome-extension stars115 - Add support for Chrome extensions.

electron-better-ipc stars620 - Simplified IPC communication.

May 27th - Jun 2nd, 2019

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Other

Motrix stars33.6k - Download manager.

May 20th - May 26th, 2019

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Other

Tockler stars615 - Tracks your time.

Apr 29th - May 5th, 2019

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Other

Unsplash Wallpapers stars245 - Set desktop wallpaper from Unsplash.

Apr 15th - Apr 21st, 2019

Boilerplates

angular-electron stars5.2k - Fast bootstrapping with Angular, Electron, TypeScript, SASS, and Hot Reload.

Feb 18th - Feb 24th, 2019

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Notable stars20.3k - Markdown-based note-taking.

Articles

Using Google Analytics to gather usage statistics in Electron - How to collect anonymous user statistics.

Dec 24th - Dec 30th, 2018

Articles

Building a file explorer with Electron, Quasar, and Vue - Focused on design and code decisions and Electron security.

Oct 22nd - Oct 28th, 2018

Community

Stack Overflow

Oct 8th - Oct 14th, 2018

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Other

Cacher - Cloud-based, team-enabled code snippet manager with Gist sync.

Etcher stars23.9k - Flash OS images to SD cards and USB drives.

Oct 1st - Oct 7th, 2018

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Other

Brandy - A brand asset manager for your menu bar.

Netron stars20.1k - Visualizer for deep learning and machine learning models.

Sep 17th - Sep 23rd, 2018

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For Electron

run-electron stars195 - Run Electron without all the junk terminal output.

Aug 6th - Aug 12th, 2018

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Mark Text stars36.2k - Real-time preview Markdown editor.

Boilerplates

electron-boilerplate stars1.6k - Boilerplate to kickstart creating an app - by sindresorhus.

electron-boilerplate stars3.1k - Comprehensive boilerplate which even generates installers - by szwacz.

Apr 16th - Apr 22nd, 2018

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Other

Pomotroid stars2.7k - Pomodoro timer.

Tools

For Electron

chromium-net-errors stars20 - Chromium's network errors as custom error classes.

Feb 26th - Mar 4th, 2018

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For Electron

electron-timber stars364 - Pretty logger.

Feb 5th - Feb 11th, 2018

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For Electron

electron-serve stars362 - Static file serving (Useful for routing, like react-router).

Jan 29th - Feb 4th, 2018

Tools

For Electron

electron-reloader stars555 - Simple auto-reloading during development.

Community

electron-pl (Polish)

Apps

Other

Nuclear stars9.3k - Music player that streams from free sources.

Dec 25th - Dec 31st, 2017

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Other

Headset stars772 - Discover, collect, and listen to music from YouTube.

Dec 4th - Dec 10th, 2017

Articles

Electron on the App Store - A 5-part series about the journey of making and publishing an Electron app to the Mac App Store.

Apps

Other

Fenêtre - Picture-in-picture for your Mac.

Nov 27th - Dec 3rd, 2017

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Other

Mailspring stars13.3k - Extensible email client. (Fork of Nylas Mail)

Apps

Samples

Activity Monitor - Shows a doughnut chart of the CPU system, user, and idle activity time.

Hash - Shows the hash values of entered text using different algorithms.

Prices - Shows the current price of oil, gold, and silver using the Yahoo Finance API.

Documentation

Quick Start

Official docs

Nov 13th - Nov 19th, 2017

Apps

Other

Buttercup Desktop stars3.9k - Password manager.

Nov 6th - Nov 12th, 2017

Videos

Electron Meetup SF, November 2017 - Includes some good talks on improving app startup time, debugging crashes, etc.

Articles

Introducing BrowserView for Electron - New Electron API to embed web apps with fewer bugs and improved performance.

Oct 30th - Nov 5th, 2017

Videos

Build Cross-Platform Desktop Apps with Electron - Frontend Masters 💲

Tools

For Electron

electron-util stars1.1k - Useful utilities for developing apps and modules.

Oct 9th - Oct 15th, 2017

Books

Cross-Platform Desktop Applications 💲

Apps

Other

Twitch - Official Twitch app.

Oct 2nd - Oct 8th, 2017

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Other

Mockoon - Mock servers in seconds.

Sep 18th - Sep 24th, 2017

Articles

Building a desktop app with Electron, React, and Redux

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Other

Tusk stars3.1k - Unofficial Evernote app.

Jul 17th - Jul 23rd, 2017

Videos

Build a desktop application with Electron - Egghead 💲

Jun 19th - Jun 25th, 2017

Tools

For Electron

electron-unhandled stars395 - Catch unhandled errors and promise rejections.

Jun 12th - Jun 18th, 2017

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For Electron

electron-store stars3.8k - Save and load data like user preferences, app state, cache, etc.

got stars12.1k - Simplified HTTP requests.

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Other

CashNotify - Monitor your Stripe accounts from your menu bar.

May 22nd - May 28th, 2017

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Other

Insomnia stars23.7k - Create and manage HTTP requests.

May 15th - May 21st, 2017

Community

Product Hunt

Apr 17th - Apr 23rd, 2017

Apps

Other

Buka stars1k - E-book management.

Components

Xel - Widget toolkit for building native-like apps.

Mar 13th - Mar 19th, 2017

Videos

Electron: Building Cross Platform Desktop Apps - Lynda 💲

Feb 6th - Feb 12th, 2017

Apps

Other

LosslessCut stars12.6k - Lossless video trimming & cutting.

Jan 23rd - Jan 29th, 2017

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Other

Cerebro stars7.5k - Launcher with inline previews.

Apps

Samples

Electron API usage stars3.8k - Sample apps illustrating usage of Electron APIs.

Screen Recorder stars384 - WebRTC screen recorder.

Jan 16th - Jan 22nd, 2017

Tools

For Electron

elemon stars71 - Live-reload your app during development.

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Other

Hackolade - Data modeling for NoSQL and multi-model databases.

Jan 2nd - Jan 8th, 2017

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Other

Inpad stars3.1k - Notes app with GitHub-flavored Markdown.

Community

electronjs on Facebook

Dec 12th - Dec 18th, 2016

Apps

Other

Stacer stars8k - Ubuntu system optimizer.

Nov 21st - Nov 27th, 2016

Community

@electron_ru on Telegram (Russian)

Nov 14th - Nov 20th, 2016

Tools

For Electron

electron-pdf-window stars265 - View PDF files in browser windows.

electron-is-accelerator stars15 - Check if a string is a valid accelerator.

Nov 7th - Nov 13th, 2016

Tools

For Electron

electron-about-window stars393 - 'About This App' window.

Oct 31st - Nov 6th, 2016

Tools

For Electron

electron-builder stars12.3k - Create installers.

NeDB stars13.2k - Embedded persistent or in-memory database.

Tools

Using Electron

electron-mocha stars345 - Run Mocha tests in Electron.

Components

menubar stars6.3k - Menubar app framework.

Apps

Other

Extraterm stars2.1k - Terminal.

Exodus - Secure, manage, and exchange blockchain assets like Bitcoin and Ethereum.

Oct 24th - Oct 30th, 2016

Videos

Getting Started with Electron 1.x

Oct 17th - Oct 23rd, 2016

Apps

Other

Boostnote stars17.2k - Markdown note & code snippet app for developers.

Oct 3rd - Oct 9th, 2016

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Other

KeeWeb stars11.2k - Unofficial KeePass app.

Inkdrop - Markdown notebook for hackers.

Sep 5th - Sep 11th, 2016

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Other

Cocos Creator - Game editor for creating web and native games for Cocos2D-x.

Aug 29th - Sep 4th, 2016

Documentation

Essential Electron - Concise overview.

Books

Developing an Electron Edge - Preview 💲

Videos

Electron Fundamentals course - Pluralsight 💲

Cross-Platform Desktop Apps with Electron

Tools

Using Electron

Reactotron stars13.7k - Inspect your React and React Native apps.

Aug 22nd - Aug 28th, 2016

Podcasts

Full Stack Radio #48: Jessica Lord - Building Desktop Apps with Electron

Aug 15th - Aug 21st, 2016

Community

Tools

For Electron

electron-log stars998 - Simple logging.

Aug 1st - Aug 7th, 2016

Apps

Other

Wire stars1k - Messenger and calling app.

Jul 25th - Jul 31st, 2016

Podcasts

JavaScript Air: Electron Apps with @jlord and @emorikawa

Jul 11th - Jul 17th, 2016

Tools

For Electron

electron-devtools-installer stars952 - Install DevTools extensions from the Chrome Web Store.

Jul 4th - Jul 10th, 2016

Podcasts

Hanselminutes: Creating cross-platform Electron apps with Jessica Lord

Videos

Building Desktop Apps with Node.js and Electron

Jun 27th - Jul 3rd, 2016

Apps

Other

Museeks stars1.3k - Music player.

Jun 13th - Jun 19th, 2016

Tools

For Electron

electron-context-menu stars1.2k - Extensible context menu.

fix-path stars243 - Fix the $PATH on macOS when run from a GUI app. Useful when spawning a child process.

electron-osx-sign stars459 - Code-signing for macOS apps.

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Other

YakYak stars3.9k - Unofficial Google Hangouts app.

CatLight - Build status notifier.

Components

React Desktop stars9.4k - UI toolkit for macOS and Windows built with React.

Articles

Codesigning your app for macOS

Auto-updating apps for macOS and Windows: The complete guide

Jun 6th - Jun 12th, 2016

Apps

Other

Crypter stars439 - Secure encryption client.

May 23rd - May 29th, 2016

Boilerplates

bozon stars749 - Scaffold, run, test, and package your app.

May 16th - May 22nd, 2016

Boilerplates

electron-quick-start stars10k - Clone the repo to try a simple app.

Apps

Other

Mattermost stars1.7k - Mattermost client.

Apps

Featured

Min stars5.4k - Minimal web browser.

May 9th - May 15th, 2016

Videos

The New Desktop: Electron, React, & Pixel-Perfect Native-Feeling Experiences

Apps

Other

WhatsApp - Official WhatsApp app.

May 2nd - May 8th, 2016

Apps

Other

Freeter - Organizer for freelancers & creatives.

Tools

For Electron

electron-rebuild stars896 - Rebuild native Node.js modules against the currently installed Electron version.

Apr 25th - May 1st, 2016

Apps

Other

MongoDB Compass - Official MongoDB app.

Apr 18th - Apr 24th, 2016

Apps

Featured

WebTorrent stars9k - Streaming torrent client.

Visual Studio Code stars137.1k - Cross-platform IDE.

Apps

Other

Git-it stars4.1k - Teaches you Git and GitHub.

Caprine stars6.5k - Unofficial Facebook Messenger app.

Simplenote stars4.1k - Note keeper.

Abricotine stars2.5k - Markdown editor with inline preview.

Medis stars11k - Redis database management.

SmartMirror stars2.7k - Voice controlled smart mirror.

Google Play Music Desktop Player stars8.4k - Unofficial Google Play Music app.

Ansel stars338 - Image organizer.

GitKraken - Git client.

1Clipboard - Universal clipboard manager.

Postman - Create and send HTTP requests.

Components

chrome-tabs stars1.6k - Chrome like tabs.

Tools

For Electron

electron-is-dev stars405 - Check if Electron is running in development.

electron-localshortcut stars390 - Add keyboard shortcuts locally to a window.

electron-dl stars975 - Simplified file downloads.

electron-release-server stars1.7k - Self-hosted release server with front-end & auto-updater support.

electron-download stars291 - Download the Electron release zip from GitHub.

ember-electron stars798 - Build, test, and package Ember apps.

Tools

Using Electron

nativefier stars31.7k - Create an app of any website.

electron-pdf stars1.2k - Generate PDF from URL, HTML, or Markdown files on the command-line.

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