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electron-prebuilt
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Install electron prebuilt binaries for command-line use using npm. This module helps you easily install the electron
command for use on the command line without having to compile anything.
Works on Mac, Windows and Linux OSes that Electron supports (e.g. Electron does not support Windows XP).
Electron is a JavaScript runtime that bundles Node.js and Chromium. You use it similar to the node
command on the command line for executing JavaScript programs. For more info you can read this intro blog post or dive into the Electron documentation
Download and install the latest build of electron for your OS and add it to your projects package.json
as a devDependency
:
npm install electron-prebuilt --save-dev
This is the preferred way to use electron, as it doesn't require users to install electron globally.
You can also use the -g
flag (global) to symlink it into your PATH:
npm install -g electron-prebuilt
If that command fails with an EACCESS
error you may have to run it again with sudo
:
sudo npm install -g electron-prebuilt
Now you can just run electron
to run electron:
electron
If you need to use an HTTP proxy you can set these environment variables
First you have to write an electron application
Then you can run your app using:
electron your-app/
Most people use this from the command line, but if you require electron-prebuilt
inside your node app it will return the file path to the binary.
Use this to spawn electron from node scripts.
var electron = require('electron-prebuilt')
var proc = require('child_process')
// will something similar to print /Users/maf/.../Electron
console.log(electron)
// spawn electron
var child = proc.spawn(electron)
FAQs
Install prebuilt electron binaries for the command-line using npm
The npm package electron-prebuilt receives a total of 2,827 weekly downloads. As such, electron-prebuilt popularity was classified as popular.
We found that electron-prebuilt demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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