Check if Electron is running in development

Useful for enabling debug features only during development.

This package must be used from the Electron main process.

$ npm install electron-is-dev

Requires Electron 3 or later.

const isDev = require('electron-is-dev');

if (isDev) {
	console.log('Running in development');
} else {
	console.log('Running in production');
}

You can force development mode by setting the ELECTRON_IS_DEV environment variable to 1.

This package existed long before that property. The benefit of this package is that you can override the value using an environment variable.

• electron-util - Useful utilities for developing Electron apps
• electron-debug - Adds useful debug features to your Electron app