electron

Electron Joined Jul 2015 View on GitHub

Stars
183,544
across 110 public repos
Rank
#96
of 94,827 organizations, top 0.1%

Repositories with 50+ stars

electron's repositories with their overall rank
RankRepositoryLanguageStars
93

Build cross-platform desktop apps with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS

C++ 123,842
4,856

Clone to try a simple Electron app

JavaScript 11,431
5,602

Explore the Electron APIs

HTML 10,224
7,748

🚀 The easiest way to get started with Electron

TypeScript 7,793
8,554

A complete tool for building and publishing Electron applications

TypeScript 7,174
23,362

Simple extensive tar-like archive format with indexing

TypeScript 2,898
33,131

Command line tool to edit resources of exe

C++ 2,054
38,568

An Electron DevTools Extension

TypeScript 1,774
39,079

Electron website

Handlebars 1,752
39,504

A collection of apps built on Electron

JavaScript 1,734
41,832

Build Windows Installers for Electron apps

TypeScript 1,636
56,698

Clone to try a simple Electron app (in TypeScript)

TypeScript 1,194
59,931

Package to rebuild native Node.js modules against the currently installed Electron version

TypeScript 1,123
79,213

🌲 A drop-in module that adds autoUpdating capabilities to Electron apps

TypeScript 825
91,990

📡 A free service that makes it easy for open-source Electron apps to update themselves.

TypeScript 703
100,943

Codesign Electron macOS apps

TypeScript 635
103,610

🌍 The home of Electron's translated documentation

TypeScript 617
105,804

Minimal Electron applications with ideas for taking them further

JavaScript 603
128,718

Shared library build of Chromium’s Content module

Python 485
148,113

Bridge JavaScript objects from the main process to the renderer process in Electron.

TypeScript 414
164,376

Download Electron release artifacts

TypeScript 368
192,631

Customize and package your Electron app with OS-specific bundles (.app, .exe, etc.) via JS or CLI

TypeScript 307
197,549

The GN scripts to use for Electron dev-flows

TypeScript 298
229,426

Minimum breakpad crash reports collecting server

CoffeeScript 250
237,463

Node fork to make it suitable for embedding in Electron

240
239,131

📦 Complete and up-to-date info about every release of Electron

JavaScript 238
281,858

Node module to edit resources of exe

JavaScript 195
283,072

Notarize your macOS Electron Apps

TypeScript 194
298,420

Get the Node.js and Electron ABI for a given target and runtime

JavaScript 182
320,701

Public repository for governance issues and documents

Shell 167
334,016

The Electron website

TypeScript 159
344,664

Controls and monitors organization permissions across GitHub, Slack and GSuite. Built with ❤️ by The Electron Team

TypeScript 153
352,306

Create Universal macOS applications from two x64 and arm64 Electron applications

TypeScript 149
362,224

Download ChromeDriver for Electron

JavaScript 144
391,044

Convert the Electron API JSON file to electron.d.ts

TypeScript 131
446,205

Electron mksnapshot binaries

JavaScript 111
492,016 TypeScript 98
544,989

automate the backporting process

TypeScript 86
577,175

Node module to process minidump files

JavaScript 80
663,577

Codesign Electron apps for Windows

TypeScript 67
704,714

Verify PRs have release notes

TypeScript 62
774,386 TypeScript 55
809,287

Fork of Chrome pdf extension to work as webui page in Electron

JavaScript 52

Among 94,827 organizations

160k–250k stars: 59 organizations, including electron

Stars along the bottom, and organizations in each band on a log scale

Where the stars are

Languages

  1. C++ 125.9k stars, 69% · 2 repos
  2. TypeScript 28.9k stars, 16% · 25 repos
  3. JavaScript 14.8k stars, 8% · 10 repos
  4. HTML 10.2k stars, 6% · 1 repo
  5. Handlebars 1.8k stars, 1% · 1 repo
  6. Python 485 stars, <1% · 1 repo
  7. CoffeeScript 250 stars, <1% · 1 repo
  8. Shell 167 stars, <1% · 1 repo

When they were made

43 repos with 50+ stars, made between 2013 and 2025

Quick stats

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Public repos
110, 43 with 50+ stars
Popular repos
3 over 10k stars, 1 over 100k stars
Top repo
electron, #93 of all repos, 67% of stars
Smaller repos
847 stars from repos under 50

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