https://github.com/electron-userland/electron-prebuilt

🎂 Retired project. See README
https://github.com/electron-userland/electron-prebuilt

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🎂 Retired project. See README

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/electron-userland/electron-prebuilt
• Owner: electron-userland
• License: mit
• Archived: true
• Created: 2014-10-20T04:18:59.000Z (about 10 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2020-10-01T06:26:57.000Z (about 4 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-04-13T16:37:13.307Z (7 months ago)
• Topics: desktop-app, electron, electron-prebuilt, javascript, nodejs
• Language: JavaScript
• Homepage: http://npm.im/electron
• Size: 305 KB
• Stars: 762
• Watchers: 29
• Forks: 127
• Open Issues: 3
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • Contributing: CONTRIBUTING.md
  • License: LICENSE

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README

        
# electron-prebuilt

This project has been merged into the

[electron/electron](https://github.com/electron/electron/tree/master/npm)

repository, and the `electron` module is now published to npm as part of the

Electron release process.

If you're having trouble installing or using Electron, please 

[file an issue on the electron/electron repo](https://github.com/electron/electron/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Aissue%20is%3Aopen%20install%20).

## Backstory

In the early days of Electron, back when it was still called `atom-shell`, there 

was no module published to npm, nor was there even an Electron team at GitHub.

Electron was used primarly by the [Atom](https://atom.io/) team, and it was up 

to early adopters to manually download compiled binary builds of Electron for 

use in their apps.

In early 2015 [Max Ogden](https://github.com/maxogden) created 

[`electron-download`](https://github.com/electron-userland/electron-download) 

and `electron-prebuilt`, two npm modules to simplify the process of installing 

Electron. These tools quickly became de facto standards in the Electron 

community.

Shortly after `electron-prebuilt` was written, 

[John Muhl](https://github.com/johnmuhl/) created

[electron-prebuilt-updater](https://github.com/electron/electron-prebuilt-updater), 

a Heroku app to publish the the prebuilt module to npm automatically as new 

versions of Electron were published on GitHub.

Fast forward to mid-2017, and GitHub now has a team working full-time on 

Electron. We are working towards a more regular release cadence, 

and are incrementally documenting and [improving our release process](https://github.com/electron/electron/blob/master/docs/development/releasing.md). 

As we've added support for things like 

[TypeScript definitions](https://electron.atom.io/blog/2017/06/01/typescript),

it's been challenging to work these additions into the `electron` -> `electron-prebuilt-updater` -> `electron-prebuilt` release flow.

To reduce the number of moving parts in the release process, we imported

the `electron-prebuilt` codebase into [`electron`](https://github.com/electron/electron/tree/master/npm) itself, and have 

[preserved the git history](https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/10172)

to acknowledge the contributions of the 32 open-source community members who 

have helped improve `electron-prebuilt` over the years.