# mhink/react-ionize

A React renderer for building your entire Electron app

Repository: https://github.com/mhink/react-ionize
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/react-ionize
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2017-04-22T11:37:52+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3446, "days_push": 3420, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1197, forks 16 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:57.415685+00:00)

## What it is
react-ionize is a custom React renderer that lets you build the non-browser parts of an Electron app (windows, menus, app lifecycle) declaratively with React components. It runs in Electron's main process and is built on the React Fiber reconciliation API.

## Use cases
- manage electron windows and menus with react components
- build electron main process ui declaratively
- use react to control electron app lifecycle
- declarative electron app configuration
- render electron app structure with jsx

## When to choose
- you want a declarative, component-based way to manage electron main-process state
- you're already comfortable with react and want to extend it to the whole electron app
- you're experimenting with custom react renderers

## When to avoid
- you need a production-ready electron solution
- you need full electron feature coverage
- you're not using react 16 alpha fiber builds

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: experimental
- function: frontend-framework, desktop-framework, ui-components
- domain: desktop-applications, web-development, developer-tools
- platform: cross-platform
- tags: electron, react-renderer, react-fiber, main-process, pre-alpha, nodejs, javascript

## Member repositories
- mhink/react-ionize (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:57.415685+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 2026-08-30T06:21:28.016467+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/mhink/react-ionize (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:57.415685+00:00, sha 4836af2dbf4a)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.