We've worked with the community to update popular packages that are affected by this change. We owe a special thanks to and many other contributors for creating and maintaining electron-prebuilt, and for their tireless service to the JavaScript, Node.js, and Electron communities.Īnd thanks to for allowing us to take over the electron package on npm. The electron-userland/electron-prebuilt repository will remain the canonical home of the electron npm package. We recommend updating your package.json files to use the new electron dependency, but we will continue releasing new versions of electron-prebuilt until the end of 2016. We chose to continue publishing the package under both names for a while so as not to inconvenience the thousands of developers who are currently using electron-prebuilt in their projects. Prebuilt lives on Īs of version 1.3.1, we have begun publishing electron and electron-prebuilt packages to npm in tandem. Luckily he was a fan of our project, and agreed to help us repurpose the name. To help make Electron development easier and more intuitive for new developers, we reached out to the owner of the existing electron npm package to ask if he'd be willing to let us use the name. This was because there was an existing electron project on npm, created before GitHub's Electron project existed. Many brave people tried to get started developing an Electron by app by running npm install electron instead of npm install electron-prebuilt, only to discover (often after much confusion) that it was not the electron they were looking for. The Electron installation process was often a stumbling block for new developers.

When installed, it detects your operating system and downloads a prebuilt binary that is compiled to work on your system's architecture. This package is an indispensable part of nearly every Electron project. If you've ever worked on an Electron app before, you've likely come across the electron-prebuilt npm package.

BrowserView window.open() Vulnerability FixĪs of Electron version 1.3.1, you can npm install electron -save-dev to install the latest precompiled version of Electron in your app.

Chromium WebAudio Vulnerability Fix (CVE-2019-13720).

Electron becomes an OpenJS Foundation Impact Project.

Community Discord Server and Hacktoberfest.

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