Electron Rebuild
Rebuilds native Node.js modules against your Electron version.
Desktop and mobile apps npm MIT
How Electron Rebuild is used
Electron Rebuild is a dependency in 8 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 46 projects, and what it is used with below comes from all of them. Projects that use it most often also use Electron (95.7%), electron-builder (87.0%), better-sqlite3 (82.6%).
Electron Rebuild popularity over time
Gid Score 51: downloads 78, use in agent projects 40, GitHub stars 14, downloads trend 72 (each 0-100). How it is calculated.
Often used with Electron Rebuild
| Electron | 95.7% of Electron Rebuild projects · 90.0× more than average |
|---|---|
| electron-builder | 87.0% of Electron Rebuild projects · 98.2× more than average |
| better-sqlite3 | 82.6% of Electron Rebuild projects · 34.2× more than average |
| Vite | 80.4% of Electron Rebuild projects · 4.1× more than average |
| Electron Updater | 71.7% of Electron Rebuild projects · 212.1× more than average |
| react-markdown | 65.2% of Electron Rebuild projects · 16.7× more than average |
| remark-gfm | 65.2% of Electron Rebuild projects · 17.8× more than average |
| Anthropic SDK | 60.9% of Electron Rebuild projects · 16.3× more than average |
From all 46 projects in our scan that use Electron Rebuild, including the dependency samples.
By coding agent
| Claude Code | 0.2% of projects set up for it |
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Share of public repos configured for each agent that list Electron Rebuild as a dependency.
How Electron Rebuild 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 Forge, 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 Rebuild alone.
USD after payment processor fees, as Open Collective reports it; fiscal host Open Source Collective. Source
Install
| Package | npm install @electron/rebuild |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | TypeScript / JavaScript (44), Next.js (2) |
| Example projects | kevinluosl/deepbot, lidangzzz/OnlySpecs, jasonkneen/codesurf, mingchen666/Reviva, cin12211/orca-q |
Alternatives to Electron Rebuild
In our scan, none of the most used tools in Desktop and mobile apps does the same job as Electron Rebuild: they are add-ons, companions or tools for a different task.
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