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These tools quickly became de facto standards in the Electron \ncommunity.\n\nShortly after `electron-prebuilt` was written, \n[John Muhl](https://github.com/johnmuhl/) created\n[electron-prebuilt-updater](https://github.com/electron/electron-prebuilt-updater), \na Heroku app to publish the the prebuilt module to npm automatically as new \nversions of Electron were published on GitHub.\n\nFast forward to mid-2017, and GitHub now has a team working full-time on \nElectron. We are working towards a more regular release cadence, \nand are incrementally documenting and [improving our release process](https://github.com/electron/electron/blob/master/docs/development/releasing.md). \nAs we've added support for things like \n[TypeScript definitions](https://electron.atom.io/blog/2017/06/01/typescript),\nit's been challenging to work these additions into the `electron` -\u003e `electron-prebuilt-updater` -\u003e `electron-prebuilt` release flow.\n\nTo reduce the number of moving parts in the release process, we imported\nthe `electron-prebuilt` codebase into [`electron`](https://github.com/electron/electron/tree/master/npm) itself, and have \n[preserved the git history](https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/10172)\nto acknowledge the contributions of the 32 open-source community members who \nhave helped improve `electron-prebuilt` over the years.","project_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Felectron-userland%2Felectron-prebuilt","html_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/projects/github.com%2Felectron-userland%2Felectron-prebuilt","lists_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Felectron-userland%2Felectron-prebuilt/lists"}