Electron
@electronjs.org
Build cross platform desktop apps with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.
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Ever wondered what it’s like to maintain Electron? @vertedin.de breaks down community, misconceptions, and why bad JavaScript is just… bad JavaScript.
https://the-github-podcast.simplecast.com/episodes/making-desktop-frameworks-more-accessible-with-electron
https://the-github-podcast.simplecast.com/episodes/making-desktop-frameworks-more-accessible-with-electron
Making Desktop Frameworks More Accessible with Electron | The GitHub Podcast
In this episode of the GitHub Podcast, Abby and Kedasha are joined by Keeley Hammond, a longtime maintainer of the Electron project.
the-github-podcast.simplecast.com
September 23, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Ever wondered what it’s like to maintain Electron? @vertedin.de breaks down community, misconceptions, and why bad JavaScript is just… bad JavaScript.
https://the-github-podcast.simplecast.com/episodes/making-desktop-frameworks-more-accessible-with-electron
https://the-github-podcast.simplecast.com/episodes/making-desktop-frameworks-more-accessible-with-electron
🤔 Wondering what IPCs are flying around in your Electron app?
Devtron is back and rebuilt for modern Electron thanks to @hitarth-gg.bsky.social's #GSoC efforts!
🚀 Give it a try and leave some feedback on GitHub!
> npm install @hitarth-gg/devtron
github.com/electron-userland/devtron/tree/next
Devtron is back and rebuilt for modern Electron thanks to @hitarth-gg.bsky.social's #GSoC efforts!
🚀 Give it a try and leave some feedback on GitHub!
> npm install @hitarth-gg/devtron
github.com/electron-userland/devtron/tree/next
GitHub - electron-userland/devtron at next
An Electron DevTools Extension. Contribute to electron-userland/devtron development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
August 14, 2025 at 10:47 PM
🤔 Wondering what IPCs are flying around in your Electron app?
Devtron is back and rebuilt for modern Electron thanks to @hitarth-gg.bsky.social's #GSoC efforts!
🚀 Give it a try and leave some feedback on GitHub!
> npm install @hitarth-gg/devtron
github.com/electron-userland/devtron/tree/next
Devtron is back and rebuilt for modern Electron thanks to @hitarth-gg.bsky.social's #GSoC efforts!
🚀 Give it a try and leave some feedback on GitHub!
> npm install @hitarth-gg/devtron
github.com/electron-userland/devtron/tree/next
Electron 37 is now available! 🚢
⚡ Squircles are here! Corner smoothing is available in both this release as well as Electron 36, and allows developers to create smoother rounded corners to match Apple's macOS design language.
Read more on the blog: www.electronjs.org/blog/electro...
⚡ Squircles are here! Corner smoothing is available in both this release as well as Electron 36, and allows developers to create smoother rounded corners to match Apple's macOS design language.
Read more on the blog: www.electronjs.org/blog/electro...
June 30, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Electron 37 is now available! 🚢
⚡ Squircles are here! Corner smoothing is available in both this release as well as Electron 36, and allows developers to create smoother rounded corners to match Apple's macOS design language.
Read more on the blog: www.electronjs.org/blog/electro...
⚡ Squircles are here! Corner smoothing is available in both this release as well as Electron 36, and allows developers to create smoother rounded corners to match Apple's macOS design language.
Read more on the blog: www.electronjs.org/blog/electro...
Electron 36 is now available! 🚢
😄 Most notably, you now can enable macOS system-level features like Writing Tools (spelling and grammar), Autofill, and Services menu items in your context menus.
Read more on the blog: www.electronjs.org/blog/electro...
😄 Most notably, you now can enable macOS system-level features like Writing Tools (spelling and grammar), Autofill, and Services menu items in your context menus.
Read more on the blog: www.electronjs.org/blog/electro...
Electron 36.0.0 | Electron
Electron 36.0.0 has been released! It includes upgrades to Chromium 136, V8 13.6, and Node 22.14.0.
www.electronjs.org
May 5, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Electron 36 is now available! 🚢
😄 Most notably, you now can enable macOS system-level features like Writing Tools (spelling and grammar), Autofill, and Services menu items in your context menus.
Read more on the blog: www.electronjs.org/blog/electro...
😄 Most notably, you now can enable macOS system-level features like Writing Tools (spelling and grammar), Autofill, and Services menu items in your context menus.
Read more on the blog: www.electronjs.org/blog/electro...
Electron 35 is now available! 🚢
🧩 Improved support for Manifest V3 Chrome extensions
💅 Additional BrowserWindow customization options
⏳ New NavigationHistory restoration API
Read more on the blog: www.electronjs.org/blog/electro...
🧩 Improved support for Manifest V3 Chrome extensions
💅 Additional BrowserWindow customization options
⏳ New NavigationHistory restoration API
Read more on the blog: www.electronjs.org/blog/electro...
Electron 35.0.0 | Electron
Electron 35.0.0 has been released! It includes upgrades to Chromium 134.0.6998.44, V8 13.5, and Node 22.14.0.
www.electronjs.org
March 6, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Electron 35 is now available! 🚢
🧩 Improved support for Manifest V3 Chrome extensions
💅 Additional BrowserWindow customization options
⏳ New NavigationHistory restoration API
Read more on the blog: www.electronjs.org/blog/electro...
🧩 Improved support for Manifest V3 Chrome extensions
💅 Additional BrowserWindow customization options
⏳ New NavigationHistory restoration API
Read more on the blog: www.electronjs.org/blog/electro...
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@electronjs.org running as an overlay on Steam Deck 😍
January 30, 2025 at 2:41 PM
@electronjs.org running as an overlay on Steam Deck 😍
@wrongbits.bsky.social's RFC for the `-electron-corner-smoothing` API has reached the two-week Final Comment Period in our RFC process! This nonstandard CSS property allows apps to further integrate with macOS' design language.
👉 Read and leave feedback here: github.com/electron/rfc...
👉 Read and leave feedback here: github.com/electron/rfc...
January 23, 2025 at 7:19 PM
@wrongbits.bsky.social's RFC for the `-electron-corner-smoothing` API has reached the two-week Final Comment Period in our RFC process! This nonstandard CSS property allows apps to further integrate with macOS' design language.
👉 Read and leave feedback here: github.com/electron/rfc...
👉 Read and leave feedback here: github.com/electron/rfc...
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You might be wrong about @electronjs.org
Wherever I see a discussion about Electron, I also see people getting tons of things wrong. People on the Internet being wrong isn't new, but I've written a bunch of text and code to clear up misconceptions.
Wherever I see a discussion about Electron, I also see people getting tons of things wrong. People on the Internet being wrong isn't new, but I've written a bunch of text and code to clear up misconceptions.
January 21, 2025 at 8:21 PM
You might be wrong about @electronjs.org
Wherever I see a discussion about Electron, I also see people getting tons of things wrong. People on the Internet being wrong isn't new, but I've written a bunch of text and code to clear up misconceptions.
Wherever I see a discussion about Electron, I also see people getting tons of things wrong. People on the Internet being wrong isn't new, but I've written a bunch of text and code to clear up misconceptions.
Electron 34 has shipped 🚢!
In this release:
⚡️ Added APIs to manage shared dictionaries
⚡️Added API to access unresponsive renderer call stacks
🛠️Bug fixes, more features & improvements
More details and release notes:
www.electronjs.org/blog/electro...
In this release:
⚡️ Added APIs to manage shared dictionaries
⚡️Added API to access unresponsive renderer call stacks
🛠️Bug fixes, more features & improvements
More details and release notes:
www.electronjs.org/blog/electro...
Electron 34.0.0 | Electron
Electron 34.0.0 has been released! It includes upgrades to Chromium 132.0.6834.83, V8 13.2, and Node 20.18.1.
www.electronjs.org
January 15, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Electron 34 has shipped 🚢!
In this release:
⚡️ Added APIs to manage shared dictionaries
⚡️Added API to access unresponsive renderer call stacks
🛠️Bug fixes, more features & improvements
More details and release notes:
www.electronjs.org/blog/electro...
In this release:
⚡️ Added APIs to manage shared dictionaries
⚡️Added API to access unresponsive renderer call stacks
🛠️Bug fixes, more features & improvements
More details and release notes:
www.electronjs.org/blog/electro...
Electron’s ecosystem repos will soon move to Node 22 as the minimum supported version. Read more about our ecosystem migration here: www.electronjs.org/blog/ecosyst...
Moving our Ecosystem to Node 22 | Electron
In early 2025, Electron’s npm ecosystem repos (under the @electron/ and @electron-forge/ namespaces) will move to Node.js 22 as the minimum supported version.
www.electronjs.org
January 7, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Electron’s ecosystem repos will soon move to Node 22 as the minimum supported version. Read more about our ecosystem migration here: www.electronjs.org/blog/ecosyst...
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@1password.bsky.social chrome extension in @electronjs.org using electron-chrome-extensions.
To make this work, a new v8 scripting context is added to service workers in Electron to allow preload scripts to provide extension APIs.
To make this work, a new v8 scripting context is added to service workers in Electron to allow preload scripts to provide extension APIs.
December 16, 2024 at 4:17 PM
@1password.bsky.social chrome extension in @electronjs.org using electron-chrome-extensions.
To make this work, a new v8 scripting context is added to service workers in Electron to allow preload scripts to provide extension APIs.
To make this work, a new v8 scripting context is added to service workers in Electron to allow preload scripts to provide extension APIs.
🤫 ❄️ Continuing our annual tradition, we're going quiet for the month of December to give our maintainers a break. We'll be back better than ever in January.
Read more: www.electronjs.org/blog/dec-qui...
Read more: www.electronjs.org/blog/dec-qui...
December Quiet Month (Dec'24) | Electron
The Electron project will pause for the month of December 2024, then return to full speed in January 2025.
www.electronjs.org
November 26, 2024 at 10:31 PM
🤫 ❄️ Continuing our annual tradition, we're going quiet for the month of December to give our maintainers a break. We'll be back better than ever in January.
Read more: www.electronjs.org/blog/dec-qui...
Read more: www.electronjs.org/blog/dec-qui...
In Electron 30, we deprecated BrowserView and replaced it with a non-experimental WebContentView. Electron maintainer @annyyang.bsky.social wrote a helpful guide on how to migrate your app to WebContentView! www.electronjs.org/blog/migrate...
Migrating from BrowserView to WebContentsView | Electron
BrowserView has been deprecated since Electron 30 and is replaced by WebContentView. Thankfully, migrating is fairly painless.
www.electronjs.org
November 22, 2024 at 10:21 PM
In Electron 30, we deprecated BrowserView and replaced it with a non-experimental WebContentView. Electron maintainer @annyyang.bsky.social wrote a helpful guide on how to migrate your app to WebContentView! www.electronjs.org/blog/migrate...
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Look who’s got a verified handle now, @electronjs.org 😄🦋
November 20, 2024 at 1:05 AM
Look who’s got a verified handle now, @electronjs.org 😄🦋
Electron 33 has shipped 🚢!
In this release:
⚡️ navigationHistory extensions
⚡️ a new handler for when a PIN is needed to unlock a cryptographic device
🛠️Bug fixes, more features & improvements
More details and release notes:
www.electronjs.org/blog/electro...
In this release:
⚡️ navigationHistory extensions
⚡️ a new handler for when a PIN is needed to unlock a cryptographic device
🛠️Bug fixes, more features & improvements
More details and release notes:
www.electronjs.org/blog/electro...
Electron 33.0.0 | Electron
Electron 33.0.0 has been released! It includes upgrades to Chromium 130.0.6723.44, V8 13.0, and Node 20.18.0.
www.electronjs.org
October 17, 2024 at 4:00 PM
Electron 33 has shipped 🚢!
In this release:
⚡️ navigationHistory extensions
⚡️ a new handler for when a PIN is needed to unlock a cryptographic device
🛠️Bug fixes, more features & improvements
More details and release notes:
www.electronjs.org/blog/electro...
In this release:
⚡️ navigationHistory extensions
⚡️ a new handler for when a PIN is needed to unlock a cryptographic device
🛠️Bug fixes, more features & improvements
More details and release notes:
www.electronjs.org/blog/electro...
Electron 32 has shipped 🚢!
In this release:
⚡️Added new API version history in our documentation
❗️Removed nonstandard File.path extension from the Web File API
🛠️Bug fixes, more features & improvements
More details and release notes:
www.electronjs.org/blog/electro...
In this release:
⚡️Added new API version history in our documentation
❗️Removed nonstandard File.path extension from the Web File API
🛠️Bug fixes, more features & improvements
More details and release notes:
www.electronjs.org/blog/electro...
Electron 32.0.0 | Electron
Electron 32.0.0 has been released! It includes upgrades to Chromium 128.0.6613.36, V8 12.8, and Node 20.16.0.
www.electronjs.org
August 21, 2024 at 11:31 PM
Electron 32 has shipped 🚢!
In this release:
⚡️Added new API version history in our documentation
❗️Removed nonstandard File.path extension from the Web File API
🛠️Bug fixes, more features & improvements
More details and release notes:
www.electronjs.org/blog/electro...
In this release:
⚡️Added new API version history in our documentation
❗️Removed nonstandard File.path extension from the Web File API
🛠️Bug fixes, more features & improvements
More details and release notes:
www.electronjs.org/blog/electro...
Electron 30 has shipped !
In this release:
❗️Added WebContentsView & BaseWindow, deprecating BrowserViews
❗️ASAR Integrity fuse now enabled by default on Windows
🛠️ Bug fixes, more features & improvements
More details and release notes:
www.electronjs.org/blog/electro...
In this release:
❗️Added WebContentsView & BaseWindow, deprecating BrowserViews
❗️ASAR Integrity fuse now enabled by default on Windows
🛠️ Bug fixes, more features & improvements
More details and release notes:
www.electronjs.org/blog/electro...
Electron 30.0.0 | Electron
Electron 30.0.0 has been released! It includes upgrades to Chromium 124.0.6367.49, V8 12.4, and Node.js 20.11.1.
www.electronjs.org
April 23, 2024 at 12:11 AM
Electron 30 has shipped !
In this release:
❗️Added WebContentsView & BaseWindow, deprecating BrowserViews
❗️ASAR Integrity fuse now enabled by default on Windows
🛠️ Bug fixes, more features & improvements
More details and release notes:
www.electronjs.org/blog/electro...
In this release:
❗️Added WebContentsView & BaseWindow, deprecating BrowserViews
❗️ASAR Integrity fuse now enabled by default on Windows
🛠️ Bug fixes, more features & improvements
More details and release notes:
www.electronjs.org/blog/electro...
Electron 29 has shipped🚢! In this release:
⚡️️Added a new net module to the utility process
📁 Added a new top-level webUtils module, a renderer process module that provides a utility layer to interact with Web API objects
🛠️ Bug fixes & improvements
More details and release notes:
⚡️️Added a new net module to the utility process
📁 Added a new top-level webUtils module, a renderer process module that provides a utility layer to interact with Web API objects
🛠️ Bug fixes & improvements
More details and release notes:
Electron 29.0.0 | Electron
Electron 29.0.0 has been released! It includes upgrades to Chromium 122.0.6261.39, V8 12.2, and Node.js 20.9.0.
www.electronjs.org
February 28, 2024 at 5:50 PM
Electron 29 has shipped🚢! In this release:
⚡️️Added a new net module to the utility process
📁 Added a new top-level webUtils module, a renderer process module that provides a utility layer to interact with Web API objects
🛠️ Bug fixes & improvements
More details and release notes:
⚡️️Added a new net module to the utility process
📁 Added a new top-level webUtils module, a renderer process module that provides a utility layer to interact with Web API objects
🛠️ Bug fixes & improvements
More details and release notes:
Electron 27.0.0 has shipped! 🚢 New in this release:️
⚡️ Upgraded to Chrome 118
📜 Added support for chrome.scripting APIs
🛠️ Bug fixes, deprecations and improvements
More details and release notes:
www.electronjs.org/blog/electro...
⚡️ Upgraded to Chrome 118
📜 Added support for chrome.scripting APIs
🛠️ Bug fixes, deprecations and improvements
More details and release notes:
www.electronjs.org/blog/electro...
October 11, 2023 at 5:30 PM
Electron 27.0.0 has shipped! 🚢 New in this release:️
⚡️ Upgraded to Chrome 118
📜 Added support for chrome.scripting APIs
🛠️ Bug fixes, deprecations and improvements
More details and release notes:
www.electronjs.org/blog/electro...
⚡️ Upgraded to Chrome 118
📜 Added support for chrome.scripting APIs
🛠️ Bug fixes, deprecations and improvements
More details and release notes:
www.electronjs.org/blog/electro...
Electron 25 has shipped! 🚢 In this release:
🌐 Implemented protocol.handle
🛜 Implemented net.fetch, using Chromium's networking stack instead of Node.js'
🛠️ Bug fixes & improvements
More details and release notes:
https://www.electronjs.org/blog/electron-25-0
🌐 Implemented protocol.handle
🛜 Implemented net.fetch, using Chromium's networking stack instead of Node.js'
🛠️ Bug fixes & improvements
More details and release notes:
https://www.electronjs.org/blog/electron-25-0
Electron 25.0.0 | Electron
Electron 25.0.0 has been released! It includes upgrades to Chromium 114, V8 11.4, and Node.js 18.15.0. Read below for more details!
www.electronjs.org
May 31, 2023 at 6:46 PM
Electron 25 has shipped! 🚢 In this release:
🌐 Implemented protocol.handle
🛜 Implemented net.fetch, using Chromium's networking stack instead of Node.js'
🛠️ Bug fixes & improvements
More details and release notes:
https://www.electronjs.org/blog/electron-25-0
🌐 Implemented protocol.handle
🛜 Implemented net.fetch, using Chromium's networking stack instead of Node.js'
🛠️ Bug fixes & improvements
More details and release notes:
https://www.electronjs.org/blog/electron-25-0