electron/forge
:electron: A complete tool for building and publishing Electron applications
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Where it stands
Rank, growth pace and release cadence relative to everything GStars tracks.
1 release in the last 90 days, the latest 31 days ago, with 111 contributors on GitHub.
Gained 26% fewer stars in the last 90 days than in the 90 days before.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Provides a comprehensive toolset for building, packaging, and publishing modern Electron applications.
- Simplifies Electron development by unifying build tools and automating native module rebuilding and packaging.
- Use for quickly initializing new Electron projects with minimal setup using a single command.
- Use for packaging Electron apps for cross-platform distribution on Windows, macOS, and Linux.
- Use for managing native Node.js module recompilation to ensure compatibility with specific Electron versions.
Should you depend on it?
License terms, project hygiene and risks, from GitHub metadata and GStars' snapshots.
License
MIT
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution.
Community files
- README: present
- Contributing guide: present
- Code of conduct: present
Watch-outs
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From the README
A complete tool for building modern Electron applications.
Electron Forge unifies the existing (and well maintained) build tools for Electron development into a simple, easy to use package so that anyone can jump right in to Electron development.
You can initialize an Electron Forge project with the
create-electron-appCLI tool.For more information on creating a new project from a template, see our CLI documentation.
For Electron Forge documentation and usage you should check out our website: electronforge.io
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
Forks
653+22
Open issues
264+5
Compared with peers in iOS
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| vercel-labs/agent-desktop | 17.0K | +13.3K | 33 | today |
| nightly-labs/openbot | 5.8K | +2.0K | 45 | today |
| rustdesk/rustdesk | 128.3K | +839 | 65 | 4 days ago |
| crmne/zapfast | 3.1K | +839 | 60 | 2 days ago |
| makecindy/cindy | 9.3K | +771 | 45 | today |
| electron/forge | 7.2K | — | 63 | 31 days ago |
| Category median | 9.3K | +839 | 45 | — |
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