sindresorhus/awesome-electron

Useful resources for creating apps with Electron

Summary

awesome-electron is a community-curated list of resources for the Electron framework, maintained by sindresorhus under the CC0-1.0 license. It catalogs open-source and closed-source Electron apps, project boilerplates, development tools, UI components, documentation, articles, books, and videos in a single categorized file.

What it is useful for

This repository works as a discovery and reference hub for engineers working with Electron. The "Apps" section lists dozens of open-source projects, from major releases like VS Code, Hyper, Signal Desktop, and Discord to smaller utilities such as Kap (a screen recorder with GIF support), Beekeeper Studio (a cross-platform SQL editor), and Netron (a visualizer for machine learning models). The "Boilerplates" section gives starting points like electron-quick-start, electron-react-boilerplate, and vite-electron-builder. The "Tools" section catalogs utilities including electron-builder for packaging, electron-store for saving user preferences, electron-dl for simplified file downloads, and electronegativity for catching security misconfigurations. Articles and videos cover topics like auto-updating, macOS notarization, and Slack's migration to BrowserView.

How engineers can use it

Because this is a curated link list rather than an installable library, there is no setup command — readers browse the README directly. The table of contents lists sections including Apps, Boilerplates, Tools, Components, Documentation, Articles, Books, and Videos. A practical workflow: an engineer starting a new Electron project compares entries in the Boilerplates section (for example, weighing electron-quick-start against vite-electron-builder), then picks a packaging tool from Tools. Another engineer debugging a release pipeline can jump straight to Tools for electron-packager or electron-builder and platform-specific installers such as electron-installer-debian, electron-installer-redhat, or electron-installer-windows. For learning, the Articles and Videos sections link to material like "Building a desktop application with Electron" and Slack's writeup on migrating to BrowserView. Two documented limitations are worth noting: the maintainer has paused submissions, so newer Electron projects may be missing, and the list does not verify whether each linked project is still maintained — readers should check the linked repository's own status before depending on it.