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Awesome Electron Awesome

Useful resources for creating apps with Electron

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 - 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.
  • Kakapo - An ambient sound mixer for relaxation or productivity.
  • DevDogs - DevDocs.io API documentation.
  • Trendy - Trending GitHub repos in your menubar.
  • N1 - Extensible email client.
  • google-music-electron - Unofficial Google music app.
  • Mancy - JavaScript REPL.
  • Pomodoro - Timer based on the Pomodoro Technique.
  • Git-it - Teaches you Git and GitHub on the command-line.
  • Sia-UI - A decentralized file storage system based on cryptocurrency technology.
  • MarkRight - GitHub flavored Markdown editor with live preview.
  • SpaceRadar - Interactive disk space and memory visualization.
  • Visual Studio Code - Free cross-platform IDE from Microsoft.
  • KeeWeb - Unofficial KeePass app.
  • Mongotron - MongoDB management tool.

Closed Source

  • Slack - Desktop version.
  • Avocode - Share design and collaborate.
  • Pixate - Mobile interaction designer.
  • 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.
  • Pubu - Real-time chat for team communication. (Chinese)
  • Pingendo - The simplest app for Bootstrap prototyping.
  • Spreaker Studio - Audio recording and broadcasting.
  • BearyChat - A messaging service that brings your team on the same page. (Chinese)
  • MockingBot - A prototyping tool for designing apps.
  • GitKraken - An intuitive, fast, and beautiful Git client.
  • Wire - Beautiful and secure messenger and calling app.
  • Boost - Simple and beautiful Markdown note app for developers.
  • Sync - A group messaging app for successful teams. (Japanese)
  • Caret - Better Markdown editor.

Boilerplates

Tools

Components

  • 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.
  • Photon - UI toolkit for building beautiful apps.

Documentation

Articles

Videos

Community

Tips

Notifications

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.

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Contributions welcome! Read the contribution guidelines first.

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