A basic “hello world” application created with Electrobun. The menus, window fixtures, icon, and tray presence are all customizable.
Foundry
To build the app into a distribution artifact, use the command bunx electrobun build. Add the --env=stable flag to produce a non-development build, and to invoke any patch generation you might have configured. (More on this later.) The resulting setup package will appear in an artifacts directory. On Windows, you’re given a self-extracting installer, but you can also redistribute a .zip archive that can just be unpacked in place.
You can elect to bundle an instance of the browser with the application or use the system’s native web view. For Linux systems, or environments where you want to guarantee feature behavior, you’ll want to bundle the browser, although this makes the download size and the on-disk footprint much bigger. The size of a compressed “hello world” download without the browser included is generally around 30MB.
Front-end and back-end development
Electrobun has no preferred front-end framework. You can use vanilla JavaScript or TypeScript as your front end, or you can use common front ends like Svelte, Angular, or React. The included boilerplate examples provide simple examples of applications written with Svelte along with React, Tailwind, or Vite.
