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electron-userland/electron-builder: A complete solution to package and build a ready for distribution Electron app with “auto update” support out of the box

A complete solution to package and build a ready for distribution Electron, Proton Native app for macOS, Windows and Linux with “auto update” support out of the box. 📦

Always looking for community contributions! 👀 Setting up a dev environment is easy to do 🪩

See the full documentation on electron.build.

Question Answer “I want to configure electron-builder” See options “I found a bug or I have a question” Open an issue “I want to support development” Donate

Yarn is strongly recommended instead of npm.

yarn add electron-builder --dev

Yarn 3 use PnP by default, but electron-builder still need node-modules(ref: yarnpkg/berry#4804). Add configuration in the .yarnrc.yaml as follows:

nodeLinker: "node-modules"

will declare to use node-modules instead of PnP.

electron-webpack-quick-start is a recommended way to create a new Electron application. See Boilerplates.

  1. Specify the standard fields in the application package.jsonname, description, version and author.

  2. Specify the build configuration in the package.json as follows:

    "build": {
      "appId": "your.id",
      "mac": {
        "category": "your.app.category.type"
      }
    }

    See all options. Option files to indicate which files should be packed in the final application, including the entry file, maybe required. You can also use separate configuration files, such as js, ts, yml, and json/json5. See read-config-file for supported extensions. JS Example for programmatic API

  3. Add icons.

  4. Add the scripts key to the development package.json:

    "scripts": {
      "app:dir": "electron-builder --dir",
      "app:dist": "electron-builder"
    }

    Then you can run yarn app:dist (to package in a distributable format (e.g. dmg, windows installer, deb package)) or yarn app:dir (only generates the package directory without really packaging it. This is useful for testing purposes).

    To ensure your native dependencies are always matched electron version, simply add script "postinstall": "electron-builder install-app-deps" to your package.json.

  5. If you have native addons of your own that are part of the application (not as a dependency), set nodeGypRebuild to true.

Please note that everything is packaged into an asar archive by default.

For an app that will be shipped to production, you should sign your application. See Where to buy code signing certificates.

See node_modules/electron-builder/out/index.d.ts. Typings for TypeScript are provided and also can be found here.

Code snippet provided below is also shown "in action" here as well.

"use strict"

const builder = require("electron-builder")
const Platform = builder.Platform

// Promise is returned
builder.build({
  targets: Platform.MAC.createTarget(),
  config: {
   "//": "build options, see https://www.electron.build/"
  }
})
  .then(() => {
    // handle result
  })
  .catch((error) => {
    // handle error
  })

Set the DEBUG environment variable to debug what electron-builder is doing:

FPM_DEBUG env to add more details about building linux targets (except snap and appimage).

DEBUG_DMG=true env var to add more debugging/verbosity from hdiutil (macOS).

!!! tip "cmd" On Windows the environment variable is set using the set command. bash set DEBUG=electron-builder

!!! tip "PowerShell" PowerShell uses different syntax to set environment variables. bash $env:DEBUG=electron-builder

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