Electron ASAR
Create and extract Electron app archive packages for distribution.
Desktop and mobile apps npm MIT
How Electron ASAR is used
Electron ASAR joined the catalog on its public numbers (5,006,312 downloads a week on npm and 2,879 GitHub stars), not on our project count: it is a dependency in 6 public GitHub projects of our scan, 2 of them set up for AI coding agents. Projects that use it most often also use Electron (83.3%), React (100.0%), electron-builder (66.7%).
Electron ASAR popularity over time
Gid Score 48: downloads 79, use in agent projects 10, GitHub stars 29, downloads trend 68 (each 0-100). How it is calculated.
Often used with Electron ASAR
| Electron | 83.3% of Electron ASAR projects · 78.4× more than average |
|---|---|
| React | 100.0% of Electron ASAR projects · 3.1× more than average |
| electron-builder | 66.7% of Electron ASAR projects · 75.2× more than average |
| esbuild | 66.7% of Electron ASAR projects · 14.3× more than average |
| Vite | 66.7% of Electron ASAR projects · 3.4× more than average |
| yaml | 50.0% of Electron ASAR projects · 16.1× more than average |
| TypeScript | 100.0% of Electron ASAR projects · 1.8× more than average |
| tsx | 50.0% of Electron ASAR projects · 3.3× more than average |
How Electron ASAR is funded
Open Collective: electron
| Received, last 12 months | $18,524 Oct 2025 – Sep 2026 |
|---|---|
| Estimated annual budget | $35,917 Open Collective's estimate |
| Balance | $74,852 |
| Raised since the start | $105,093 · $30,242 paid out |
| Typical month median, last 12 months | $1,473 · $1,473 over 24 months |
| Last 12 months vs the 12 before | -14% |
| Contributors, last 12 months | 11 |
Top company backers all time, 42 companies in total
| Figma | $39,000 since Sep 2024 |
|---|---|
| Streamlabs | $7,500 since Jun 2022 |
| Frontend Masters | $3,640 since Dec 2018 |
| Raider.IO | $3,450 since Jan 2021 |
| White Label Communications | $2,500 since Feb 2019 |
Oct 2021Sep 2026
Money by month, last five years. First money received in Mar 2018. The typical month is the median: one big one-off donation does not move it.
The same collective is named by 5 more tools in our catalog: Electron, Electron Rebuild, Electron Forge, Electron Notarize, Electron Remote.
Open Collective lists this collective for the electron organization on GitHub, so the money is for all of its projects, not Electron ASAR alone.
USD after payment processor fees, as Open Collective reports it; fiscal host Open Source Collective. Source
Install
| Package | npm install @electron/asar |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | TypeScript / JavaScript (4), Next.js (1), Rust (1) |
| Example projects | Modole/laobos-agent-studio, jcosta33/sourdaw, ndunl075/hydra |
Alternatives to Electron ASAR
In our scan, none of the most used tools in Desktop and mobile apps does the same job as Electron ASAR: they are add-ons, companions or tools for a different task.
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