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electron-builder
A complete solution to package and build a ready for distribution Electron app for MacOS, Windows and Linux with “auto update” support out of the box
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A complete solution to package and build a ready for distribution Electron app for MacOS, Windows and Linux with “auto update” support out of the box
The npm package electron-builder receives a total of 2,460,500 weekly downloads. As such, electron-builder popularity was classified as popular.
We found that electron-builder demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 3 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
Package last updated on 09 Jun 2026
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