fiddle
:electron: 🚀 The easiest way to get started with Electron
A desktop playground for quickly trying out Electron features, load a template, pick your Electron version, hit play, and share experiments as GitHub Gists without any project setup.
Electron Fiddle is a desktop application that lets you experiment with Electron, the framework used to build desktop apps with web technologies. Think of it as a playground: you open it, a starter template is already loaded, you make changes, pick which version of Electron to run it with, and hit play. No complicated setup is needed to get started.
When you want to share an experiment, you can save it as a GitHub Gist, which is a simple way to publish a small piece of code online. Anyone who has the link can load your experiment directly into their own copy of Fiddle by pasting the address into the app's address bar.
Fiddle includes a full code editor from Microsoft, the same one that powers Visual Studio Code, so the editing experience is familiar and polished. It also includes built-in examples for every feature that Electron exposes, so you can quickly try out anything from taking screenshots of the screen to managing browser windows.
Once your experiment is ready to become a real application, Fiddle can package it into a distributable app for Windows, macOS, or Linux. It can also export the code as a proper project folder that you can continue developing in any code editor you prefer. It is intended as a starting point and learning tool, not a full development environment.
Where it fits
- Quickly test whether a specific Electron API works the way you expect by loading a built-in example and running it in seconds.
- Share a reproducible Electron bug or experiment with others by saving it as a GitHub Gist and sending the link.
- Try your idea against multiple Electron versions to find when a behavior changed or broke.
- Package a working experiment into a distributable desktop app for Windows, macOS, or Linux directly from Fiddle.