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74 / 100

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Security issues found

All security vulnerabilities belong to production dependencies of direct and indirect packages.

Security and license risk for significant versions

All Versions

Version			Vulnerabilities	License Risk
31.7.6	\|	12/2024	0 C 1 H 2 M 0 L	0 H 0 M 0 L
32.2.7	\|	12/2024	0 C 1 H 1 M 0 L	0 H 0 M 0 L
33.2.1	\|	11/2024	0 C 1 H 1 M 0 L	0 H 0 M 0 L
33.1.0	\|	11/2024	0 C 1 H 2 M 0 L	0 H 0 M 0 L
23.3.13	\|	08/2023	5 C 66 H 11 M 0 L	0 H 0 M 0 L

License

MIT

Security Policy

Yes

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Popularity

Influential project

Weekly Downloads (687,761)

GitHub Stars: 114.79K
Forks: 15.63K
Contributors: 380

Direct Usage Popularity

The npm package electron receives a total of 687,761 downloads a week. As such, we scored electron popularity level to be Influential project.

Based on project statistics from the GitHub repository for the npm package electron, we found that it has been starred 114,793 times.

Downloads are calculated as moving averages for a period of the last 12 months, excluding weekends and known missing data points.

Community

Active

Readme.md: No
Contributing.md: Yes
Code of Conduct: Yes
Contributors: 380
Funding: No

A good and healthy external contribution signal for electron project, which invites more than one hundred open source maintainers to collaborate on the repository.

How about a good first contribution to this project? It seems that electron is missing a README file.

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Maintenance

Healthy

Commit Frequency

Open Issues: 887
Open PR: 90
Last Release: 24 days ago
Last Commit: 3 days ago

Further analysis of the maintenance status of electron based on released npm versions cadence, the repository activity, and other data points determined that its maintenance is Healthy.

We found that electron demonstrates a positive version release cadence with at least one new version released in the past 3 months.

As a healthy sign for on-going project maintenance, we found that the GitHub repository had at least 1 pull request or issue interacted with by the community.

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Package

Node.js Compatibility: >= 12.20.55

Age: 13 years
Dependencies: 3 Direct
Versions: 1.37K
Install Size: 1.02 MB
Dist-tags: 98
# of Files: 8
Maintainers: 2
TS Typings: Yes

electron has more than a single and default latest tag published for the npm package. This means, there may be other tags available for this package, such as next to indicate future releases, or stable to indicate stable releases.

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/* eslint-env node */

const {BrowserWindow, app} = require('electron');

let mainWindow = null;

app.on('window-all-closed', function onWindowAllClosed() {
    if (process.platform !== 'darwin') {
        app.quit();
    }
});

app.on('ready', function onReady() {
    mainWindow = new BrowserWindow({
        width: 800,
        height: 600
    });

    delete mainWindow.module;

    if (process.env.EMBER_ENV === 'test') {
        mainWindow.loadURL('file://' + __dirname + '/index.html');
    } else {
        mainWindow.loadURL('file://' + __dirname + '/dist/index.html');
    }

    mainWindow.on('closed', function onClosed() {
        mainWindow = null;
    });

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electron dependencies

@types/node extract-zip @electron/get

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What is electron?

Build cross platform desktop apps with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. Visit Snyk Advisor to see a full health score report for electron, including popularity, security, maintenance & community analysis.

Is electron popular?

The npm package electron receives a total of 687,761 weekly downloads. As such, electron popularity was classified as an influential project. Visit the popularity section on Snyk Advisor to see the full health analysis.

Is electron well maintained?

We found that electron demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity. It has a community of 380 open source contributors collaborating on the project. See the full package health analysis to learn more about the package maintenance status.

Is electron safe to use?

Security issues were found while scanning the latest version of electron, and a total of 2 vulnerabilities were detected. It is highly advised to conduct a security review before using this package. View the full security scan results.

Last updated on 21 December-2024, at 03:26 (UTC).

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