Electron Packager is a command line tool and Node.js library that bundles Electron-based application source code with a renamed Electron executable and supporting files into folders ready for distribution. For creating distributables like installers and Linux packages, consider using either Electron Forge (which uses Electron Packager internally), or one of the related Electron tools, which utilizes Electron Packager-created folders as a basis. Note that packaged Electron applications can be relatively large. A zipped, minimal Electron application is approximately the same size as the zipped prebuilt binary for a given target platform, target arch, and Electron version (files named electron-v${version}-${platform}-${arch}.zip). Building an Electron app for the Windows target platform requires editing the Electron.exe file. Currently, Electron Packager uses node-rcedit to accomplish this.

Features

  • Building an Electron app for the Windows target platform requires editing the Electron.exe file
  • For creating distributables like installers and Linux packages, consider using either Electron Forge
  • It generates executables/bundles for Windows, Mac and Linux
  • If appname is omitted, this will use the name specified by "productName" or "name" in the nearest package.json
  • You should be able to launch the app on the platform you built for. If not, check your settings and try again

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BSD License

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Operating Systems

Linux, Mac, Windows

Programming Language

JavaScript

Related Categories

JavaScript Package Managers, JavaScript Command Line Tools

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2021-07-21