Electron is an open-source project under the OpenJS Foundation maintained by an active community of contributors.

The Electron framework lets you write cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS. Electron embeds Chromium and Node.js to bring JavaScript to the desktop. Electron apps run natively on macOS, Windows, and Linux across all supported architectures.

## Desktop development made easy

Electron takes care of the hard parts so you can focus on the core of your application.

- **Native graphical user interfaces**: Interact with your operating system's interfaces with Electron's main process APIs. Customize your application window appearance, control application menus, or alert users through dialogs or notifications.

- **Automatic software updates**: Send out software updates to your macOS and Windows users whenever you release a new version with Electron's autoUpdater module, powered by Squirrel.

- **Application installers**: Use community-supported tooling to generate platform-specific tooling like Apple Disk Image (.dmg) on macOS, Windows Installer (.msi) on Windows, or RPM Package Manager (.rpm) on Linux.

- **App store distribution**: Electron has first-class support for the Mac App Store (macOS), the Microsoft Store (Windows), or the Snap Store (Linux).

- **Crash reporting**: Automatically collect JavaScript and native crash data from your users with the crashReporter module.

Electron's bundled Chromium build ensures that your app has a stable rendering target with all the newest web platform features. Use any package from the rich npm ecosystem, or write your own native add-on code to extend Electron.

Popular consumer and rock-solid enterprise apps use Electron to power their desktop experiences. Thousands of organizations spanning all industries use Electron to build cross-platform software.