Application Distribution

    You can use the following tools to distribute your application:

    These tools will take care of all the steps you need to take to end up with a distributable Electron application, such as bundling your application, rebranding the executable, and setting the right icons.

    You can check the example of how to package your app with in the .

    To distribute your app manually, you need to download Electron’s prebuilt binaries. Next, the folder containing your app should be named app and placed in Electron’s resources directory as shown in the following examples.

    On macOS:

    Then execute Electron.app on macOS, electron on Linux, or electron.exe on Windows, and Electron will start as your app. The electron directory will then be your distribution to deliver to users.

    Instead of shipping your app by copying all of its source files, you can package your app into an archive to improve the performance of reading files on platforms like Windows, if you are not already using a bundler such as Parcel or Webpack.

    To use an archive to replace the app folder, you need to rename the archive to app.asar, and put it under Electron’s resources directory like below, and Electron will then try to read the archive and start from it.

    On macOS:

    On Windows and Linux:

    You can find more details on how to use asar in the electron/asar repository.

    macOS

    You can rename Electron.app to any name you want, and you also have to rename the CFBundleDisplayName, CFBundleIdentifier and fields in the following files:

    • Electron.app/Contents/Info.plist

    You can also rename the helper app to avoid showing Electron Helper in the Activity Monitor, but make sure you have renamed the helper app’s executable file’s name.

    The structure of a renamed app would be like:

    Windows

    You can rename electron.exe to any name you like, and edit its icon and other information with tools like .

    Linux

    You can rename the electron executable to any name you like.

    It is also possible to rebrand Electron by changing the product name and building it from source. To do this you need to set the build argument corresponding to the product name (electron_product_name = "YourProductName") in the file and rebuild.