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.
- Koko - IRC client.
- Leanote - Cloud notepad.
- Snapper - Screen capturing & recording for Android devices.
- Gitify - GitHub Notifications on your menu bar.
- Colonizers - "Catan" inspired board game.
- Cumulus - SoundCloud player in your menubar.
- We Build SG - Upcoming events & recently updated repos from webuild.sg.
- Piglet - Run Grunt tasks from OS X menubar.
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.
- electron-debug - Adds useful debug features.
- fix-path - Fix the $PATH on OS X when run from a GUI app. Useful when spawning a child process.
- editor-framework - Easily create dockable IDE apps.
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
Videos
Community
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.