If you do not want to use Electron Forge for your project, there are other third-party tools you can use to distribute your app.
These tools are maintained by members of the Electron community, and do not come with official support from the Electron project.
Electron Builder
A "complete solution to package and build a ready-for-distribution Electron app" that focuses on an integrated experience.
electron-builder
adds a single dependency and manages all further requirements internally.
electron-builder
replaces features and modules used by the Electron maintainers (such as the auto-updater) with custom ones.
Hydraulic Conveyor
A
desktop app deployment tool
that supports cross-building/signing of all packages from any OS without the need for multi-platform CI, can do synchronous web-style updates on each start of the app, requires no code changes, can use plain HTTP servers for updates and which focuses on ease of use. Conveyor replaces the Electron auto-updaters with Sparkle on macOS, MSIX on Windows, and Linux package repositories.
Conveyor is a commercial tool that is free for open source projects. There's an example of
how to package GitHub Desktop
which can be used for learning.
