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Useful resources for creating apps with Electron (formerly atom-shell)

Awesome Electron

Useful resources for creating apps with Electron (formerly atom-shell)

Inspired by the awesome list thing. You might also like awesome-nodejs.

Example apps

Some good apps written with Electron.

Open Source

• Atom - Code editor.
• Nuclide - Unified IDE.
• Playback - Video player.
• Friends - P2P chat.
• Kitematic - Docker container management.
• Monu - Process monitoring.
• ScreenCat - Screen sharing & remote collaboration.
• Gulp - GUI for running gulp tasks.
• Imagemin - Minify images.
• Mapbox Studio - Map designer.
• LevelUI - LevelDB management.
• Kart - Frontend for RetroArch.
• Douban-FM-Express - DoubanFM client.
• Cuttle - UI for the ClojureScript compiler.
• Vmd - Preview Markdown files.
• Kyoku - Displays current iTunes song.
• GReader - Collect and read offline readme files of GitHub repos.
• Sample apps - Various sample apps.

Closed Source

• Slack - Desktop version.
• Avocode - Share design and collaborate.
• Pixate - Mobile interaction designer.
• Particle Dev - Professional IDE for Particle.
• Visual Studio Code - Free cross-platform IDE from Microsoft.
• Nylas - Email client.
• Fireball - Hackable game editor for creating mobile and HTML5 games.

Boilerplates

• electron-boilerplate (by sindresorhus) - Boilerplate to kickstart creating an app.
• generator-electron - Scaffold out an app boilerplate.
• electron-boilerplate (by szwacz) - Comprehensive boilerplate which even generates installers.

Tools

• electron-packager - Package and distribute your Electron app for OS X, Linux and Windows (.app, .exe, etc).
• electron-prebuilt - Install prebuilt Electron binaries for command-line use using npm.
• electron-rebuild - Rebuild native io.js modules against the currently installed Electron version.
• electron-gh-release - Electron auto-update by releasing on GitHub.
• electron-download - Download the Electron release zip from GitHub for a particular architecture and platform.

Components

• titlebar - Emulate the OS X window titlebar.
• chrome-tabs - Chrome like tabs.
• menubar - High-level way to create a menubar app.
• cookies - Adds support for document.cookie.
• window - Easily create windows, pass arguments to renderer, and manage global window references.

Tutorials

• Quick Start
• Official docs
• Architecture overview

Videos

• Creating Desktop Apps with Electron
• Packaging and Distributing Electron Desktop Apps

Community

• Discussion forum
• StackOverflow
• #atom-shell on Freenode
• @electronjs on Twitter

Contribute

Contributions welcome! Read the contribution guidelines first.

License

To the extent possible under law, Sindre Sorhus has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this work.