awesome-electron

Awesome Electron is a curated list of useful resources for building desktop apps with Electron. Electron, as the README explains, is an open-source framework for creating desktop applications using web technologies; it combines the Chromium rendering engine — which is what powers a web browser — with the Node.js runtime, which lets the same code also reach into the operating system. The practical effect is that a developer can write a desktop app in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript and ship it as an installable program. The repository itself does not contain Electron or any application. It is a single readme organizing pointers into categories: example apps made with Electron (both open source and proprietary), starter boilerplates, build and packaging tools, reusable components, official documentation, articles, books, videos, podcasts, and community spaces. Each entry is a short description plus a link. The featured open-source apps include Visual Studio Code, the Hyper terminal, the Min browser, and the WebTorrent streaming client, which gives a sense of the kind of software Electron is used to build. Someone would consult this list when they want to learn how Electron is used in practice, to pick a starter template before beginning a new project, to find a tool that solves a common problem like packaging, or to look for prior art instead of writing everything from scratch. The description notes that submissions are temporarily paused because the maintainer is tired of reviewing low-quality contributions. Because it is a list of links rather than a program, there is no language or framework involved beyond markdown.