Useful resources for creating apps with Electron

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

Some good apps written with Electron.

• 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 - Run Gulp tasks from the menubar.
• 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 the menubar.
• Yoda - Browse and download YouTube videos.
• Particle Dev - Professional IDE for Particle.
• Loop Drop - MIDI looper and synth for live electronic music performances.
• Fireball - Hackable game editor for creating mobile and HTML5 games.
• Toby - YouTube player.
• Kaku - The next generation music client.
• Yeoman - Scaffold projects using Yeoman.
• Mojibar - Emoji searcher in the menubar.
• Markn - Lightweight Markdown viewer.
• Shiba - Live preview Markdown app with linting.
• Yays - YouTube music player in your menubar.
• nuTorrent - BitTorrent client.
• Soundcast - Cast OS X audio to Chromecast from the menubar.
• TimoFM - DoubanFM music player.
• Black Screen - A terminal emulator for the 21st century.
• Tèsèvè - A simple static webserver.
• Caprine - Unofficial Facebook Messenger app.

• Slack - Desktop version.
• Avocode - Share design and collaborate.
• Pixate - Mobile interaction designer.
• Visual Studio Code - Free cross-platform IDE from Microsoft.
• Nylas - Email client.
• Prepros - Compile almost any preprocessing language with live browser refresh.
• Stremio - Next generation media center.
• RESTer - Easy and beautiful way to test your APIs and servers.
• Typetalk - Share and discuss ideas with your team through instant messaging.
• Wagon - A modern SQL editor: a better way to write queries, visualize results, and share data & charts.

• 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.

• electron-packager - Package and distribute your app.
• electron-builder - Create installers.
• electron-prebuilt - Install prebuilt Electron binaries for command-line use using npm.
• electron-debug - Adds useful debug features.
• electron-rebuild - Rebuild native io.js modules against the currently installed Electron version.
• electron-gh-release - Auto-update by releasing on GitHub.
• electron-release - Publish a new release of your app to GitHub.
• electron-updater - Auto-updater leveraging npm to deploy updates.
• electron-download - Download the Electron release zip from GitHub.
• electron-compile - Use ES2015, CoffeeScript, LESS, SCSS in your app without a precompilation step.
• 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.
• electron-mocha - Run your Mocha tests in Electron.
• electron-positioner - Position windows at common spots.
• electron-pdf - Generate PDF from URL, HTML or Markdown files on the command-line.
• Nightmare - A high-level browser automation library (alternative to PhantomJS).

• menubar - High-level way to create a menubar app.
• titlebar - Emulate the OS X window titlebar.
• chrome-tabs - Chrome like tabs.
• cookies - Adds support for document.cookie.
• window - Easily create windows, pass arguments to renderer, and manage global window references.
• is-electron-renderer - Check if your code is running in main or renderer.
• ipc-stream - Duplex stream over IPC.
• Monogamous - Make your app run as a single-instance app.

• Quick Start
• Official docs
• Architecture overview

• Electron Fundamentals
• Building a desktop application with Electron

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

• Discuss
• StackOverflow
• #atom-shell on Freenode
• @electronjs on Twitter

Electron doesn't have a notifications API, but you can use the Notifications API in the browser window. It works on OS X and Linux, but not yet Windows. Use node-notifier if you need Windows support.

Contributions welcome! Read the contribution guidelines first.

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