How Electron Forge is used
Electron Forge is a dependency in 5 of the 6,208 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned, too few to describe it from them alone. Our scan also samples projects by dependency (Solana 2,661, Ethereum and EVM 1,496, 3D and games 2,818, agent frameworks and SDKs 10,983); counting those, it appears in 22 projects, and what it is used with below comes from all of them. The most used alternative in our scan is electron-builder (55 projects). Projects that use it most often also use Electron (95.5%), Vite (59.1%), React (68.2%).
Electron Forge popularity over time
Gid Score 50: downloads 65, use in agent projects 29, GitHub stars 44, downloads trend 62 (each 0-100). How it is calculated.
Often used with Electron Forge
| Electron | 95.5% of Electron Forge projects · 89.8× more than average |
|---|---|
| Vite | 59.1% of Electron Forge projects · 3.0× more than average |
| React | 68.2% of Electron Forge projects · 2.1× more than average |
| TypeScript | 86.4% of Electron Forge projects · 1.6× more than average |
| dotenv | 45.5% of Electron Forge projects · 2.9× more than average |
| Testing Library | 36.4% of Electron Forge projects · 3.6× more than average |
| react-markdown | 31.8% of Electron Forge projects · 8.1× more than average |
| remark-gfm | 31.8% of Electron Forge projects · 8.7× more than average |
From all 22 projects in our scan that use Electron Forge, including the dependency samples.
How Electron Forge 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 Notarize, Electron ASAR, Electron Remote.
Open Collective lists this collective for the electron organization on GitHub, so the money is for all of its projects, not Electron Forge alone.
USD after payment processor fees, as Open Collective reports it; fiscal host Open Source Collective. Source
GitHub Sponsors
| @malept | 2 current sponsors |
|---|
GitHub shows how many people and companies sponsor an account, not how much they pay. Sponsors of a person back all of their work.
Ways to fund Electron Forge
As the maintainers list them in FUNDING.yml on GitHub. Checked Oct 20, 2026.
Install
| Package | npm install @electron-forge/cli |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | TypeScript / JavaScript (20), Python (1), Next.js (1) |
| Example projects | remix-project-org/remix-project, lidangzzz/OnlySpecs, rwliebs/Dossier, geckse/n8n-desk, zhu1090093659/CodeConductor |
Alternatives to Electron Forge
Tools that do the same job, so a project picks one or the other. Add-ons and libraries used alongside Electron Forge are not listed here; they are in "Often used with".
| Tool | Gid Score | Used in agent projects | Downloads / wk | GitHub stars | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| electron-builder npm Complete solution to package and distribute Electron apps for macOS, Windows and Linux. |
66 | 55 (1.1%) | 3.7M | 14.7K | MIT |
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