Building Electron.js apps with React.js (2023 update)

Sam Decrock
4 min readDec 21, 2022

This tutorial explains how you can develop and build your Electron.js app using React.js

Although the Electron.js website mentions it’s compatible with React.js, there is no clear guide on how to achieve this. I found some tutorials online, but they seem a bit bloated. They mix both the Electron.js source with the React.js source and I wanted to keep them separate.

How does Electron.js work?
So, how does an Electron app work? It’s actually a Node.js process spawning a window which is in fact a Chromium browser:

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Sam Decrock

Hardware and software (reverse) engineer. Passionate about new technologies. samdecrock.be