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Electron ​

  • Developer: OpenJS Foundation
  • Development Status: Active
  • Released: 2013
  • Platforms: Windows, macOS, Linux
  • Type: In-app Browser
  • Rendering Engine: Blink

Overview ​

Electron is a framework for building desktop apps with Chromium and Node.js.

User-Agent Examples ​

Windows ​
sh
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Atom/1.41.0 Chrome/69.0.3497.128 Electron/4.2.7 Safari/537.36

Code Example ​

js
import { UAParser } from 'ua-parser-js';

const parser = new UAParser();
const ua = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Atom/1.41.0 Chrome/69.0.3497.128 Electron/4.2.7 Safari/537.36';

console.log(parser.setUA(ua).getBrowser());
// {name: "Electron", version: "4.2.7", major: "4"}

UAParser.js v2 is licensed under AGPLv3 or PRO licenses.