# blackboardsh/electrobun

Build ultra fast, tiny, and cross-platform desktop apps with Typescript.

Repository: https://github.com/blackboardsh/electrobun
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/electrobun
Homepage: http://blackboard.sh/electrobun
Language: TypeScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2026-08-26T18:33:51+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 92/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 99, longevity 65
- inputs: {"age_days": 917, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": 11, "gap_med": 6.0, "n_releases_24m": 23}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 12696, forks 357 (observed 2026-08-28T04:10:59.622803+00:00)

## What it is
Electrobun is a solution-in-a-box framework for building fast, tiny, cross-platform desktop applications in TypeScript (with optional Zig, Rust, Go, or Odin main processes). It uses system webviews or optional Chromium/WGPU instead of bundling a full browser, and includes Hutch, a CLI for building, dependency management, signing, and shipping kilobyte-scale updates.

## Use cases
- build a cross-platform desktop app in typescript
- electron alternative with small bundle size
- ship desktop apps with built-in auto-updates
- render ui in system webview instead of bundling chromium
- create desktop apps with zig or rust main process
- build gpu-native desktop apps with wgpu
- package and distribute compact desktop installers

## When to choose
- you want Electron-like desktop apps but with megabyte-scale bundles instead of hundreds of megabytes
- you want TypeScript-first development with optional native (Zig/Rust/Go/Odin) main processes
- you need built-in verified updates, signing, and release channels across macOS, Windows, and Linux
- you prefer system webviews or WGPU over shipping Chromium

## When to avoid
- you need deep OS integration or a mature plugin ecosystem comparable to Electron's
- you require guaranteed identical rendering across platforms via a pinned browser engine but don't want the CEF bundle tradeoff
- you need Windows support parity with a long-proven track record, since the framework is newer and evolving rapidly

## Facets
- artifact type: framework
- maturity: active
- function: desktop-framework, web-framework, build-tool, package-manager, deployment, gui
- domain: desktop-applications, web-development, developer-tools, cross-platform
- platform: windows, cross-platform, cli
- tags: webview, electron-alternative, typescript, zig, auto-updates, cottontail-runtime, hutch-cli, wgpu, cef, small-bundle-size, macos, linux

## Member repositories
- blackboardsh/electrobun (main) score 92

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:59.622803+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:13:51.198503+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/blackboardsh/electrobun (fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:59.622803+00:00, sha 49724f22c54e)
  - homepage: http://blackboard.sh/electrobun (fetched 2026-08-29T08:10:32.408818+00:00, sha 554cc9753ebd)
  - site_page: https://framework.blackboard.sh/electrobun/guides/hello-world (fetched 2026-08-29T08:10:32.415845+00:00, sha 1c9f2a92abb0)
  - site_page: https://blackboard.sh/about (fetched 2026-08-29T08:10:32.411925+00:00, sha 7aed45308792)
  - site_page: https://framework.blackboard.sh/electrobun (fetched 2026-08-29T08:10:32.413904+00:00, sha c5d5eed749b2)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.