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Top 23 TypeScript Electron Projects
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// A terminal "local echo" or typeahead addon for xterm.js. // // This is forked from VSCode's typeahead implementation at // https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/blob/1.80.1/...
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Playwright
Playwright is a framework for Web Testing and Automation. It allows testing Chromium, Firefox and WebKit with a single API.
To see why this matters, it helps to remember what people are reaching for a different browser to do. Playwright is excellent at driving a browser, and scrapy-playwright wires that capability into Scrapy at the download handler so a rendered page arrives through the normal request and response cycle, asynchronously and quickly. The catch is the binary. The Chromium and Firefox builds that Playwright ships are the standard, well-known ones, which means even fairly basic anti-bot systems recognize them almost immediately, and the sites you most want to reach are rarely running basic anti-bot systems. These browsers were designed for automated testing, and no scraping specifically.
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AFFiNE
There can be more than Notion and Miro. AFFiNE(pronounced [ə‘fain]) is a next-gen knowledge base that brings planning, sorting and creating all together. Privacy first, open-source, customizable and ready to use.
Project mention: dim0 alternatives - excalidraw, obsidian-releases, and AFFiNE | libhunt.com/r/dim0 | 2026-05-01 -
Project mention: ScribeDog alternatives - marktext, Zettlr, Joplin, and logseq | libhunt.com/r/scribedog | 2026-07-21
Same true WYSIWYG Markdown editing as Mark Text, but with built-in local AI (Ollama/Jan.ai/LM Studio) and offline voice dictation. Tauri instead of Electron, MIT-licensed, no telemetry.
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Joplin
Joplin - the privacy-focused note taking app with sync capabilities for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS.
Project mention: ScribeDog alternatives - marktext, Zettlr, Joplin, and logseq | libhunt.com/r/scribedog | 2026-07-21Where Joplin is a note manager with sync, ScribeDog is a focused writing tool: true WYSIWYG Markdown editing on a plain folder of .md files — no database, no sync layer — with built-in local AI rewriting (Ollama/Jan.ai/LM Studio) and fully offline voice dictation. MIT-licensed, no telemetry, no account.
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Project mention: 10 Powerful Open Source AI Tools You Won’t Believe Are Still Free in 2026 | dev.to | 2025-11-03
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AppSignal
AppSignal knows why the f*#k it crashed. Stop vibe-debugging. Every exception, every backtrace, grouped so you see patterns, not noise.
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siyuan
A privacy-first, self-hosted, fully open source personal knowledge management software, written in typescript and golang.
Project mention: SiYuan: The Open-Source Knowledge Base That Lets Developers Truly Own Their Thoughts | dev.to | 2025-11-28View the Project on GitHub
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> You can apply tags to blocks, which make them a kind of thing (a project, an author, a quote, a thought)
FWIW, needing typed notes is what settled me on Trilium Notes after a foray into a bunch of alternatives, including Notion, Anytype, Obsidian, etc
I realized that efficient note taking and knowledge management generally means (to me) having "dimension lists" (collections of places, people, projects, ...) being referred to in topical notes/journals/events, generally organized as a hierarchy (but not always). Once you come to that realisation (and that your notes system is essentially a glorified RDBMS), you want a system that ensures that "notes of the same type remain as consistent as possible", which Trilium makes easy via Templates and/or Inheritance (attributes can be inherited in the OOP sense, or composed like traits), collections to represent, manage and edit large amounts of notes at once, and emacs-levels of scripting if that's your jam.
https://triliumnotes.org/
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TypeORM
TypeScript & JavaScript ORM for Node.js — supports PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, SQLite, SQL Server, Oracle, and more.
TypeORM - TypeORM is an ORM that can run in NodeJS, Browser, Cordova, PhoneGap, Ionic, React Native
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Project mention: Nuclear: Desktop music player focused on streaming from free sources | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-09-03
This might be of interest:
https://github.com/th-ch/youtube-music
Custom YT Music desktop client with loads of plugins to customize the experience (including ad-blocking). I'm not the dev, just a happy user.
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PicGo
:rocket: The Ultimate Image Uploader for Efficient Creators. Supports Obsidian, Typora, VS Code etc. and 60+ image hosting services (S3, GitHub, Cloudflare R2, Imgur, Aliyun OSS...). Paste, upload, done.
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responsively-app
A modified web browser that helps in responsive web development. A web developer's must have dev-tool.
Project mention: Improving Responsively App Documentation – Week 2 of Hacktoberfest | dev.to | 2025-10-19For my second Hacktoberfest contribution, I worked on improving the documentation for Responsively App, an open-source desktop browser that helps developers preview responsive websites in real time. The README was missing some setup instructions and quick-start steps, so I decided to make it easier for new users and contributors.
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beekeeper-studio
Modern and easy to use SQL client for MySQL, Postgres, SQLite, SQL Server, and more. Linux, MacOS, and Windows.
Beekeeper Studio is a modern SQL editor and database manager with an open-source community edition. It supports many databases, including MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, SQL Server, ClickHouse, DuckDB, MariaDB, Oracle, Redis, Redshift, Trino, and more.
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Project mention: I built the VS Code Remote WSL extension, but for GitHub Desktop | dev.to | 2026-03-26
Think of it like the VS Code Remote WSL extension but for GitHub Desktop. A fork of GitHub Desktop that makes WSL repositories work properly — 6-27x faster git operations, working SSH keys, and no more CRLF issues.
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And Eclipse Foundation maintains VSCode-compatible editor designed to be a framework for other IDEs: https://theia-ide.org/
IMO sounds like natural foundation for Cursor
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deskreen
Deskreen turns any device with a web browser into a secondary screen for your computer. ⭐️ Star to support our work!
Project mention: deskreen VS linux-display-extend - a user suggested alternative | libhunt.com/r/deskreen | 2025-12-10 -
Project mention: Recordly: A cross-platform OSS alternative to Screen Studio | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-07-03
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Project mention: Spotify increases its US subscription prices for the third time in 3 years | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-01-16
I personally use jellyfin and supply the media myself, though there are much better ways to do it.
Alternative: https://nuclearplayer.com/
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electron-builder
A complete solution to package and build a ready for distribution Electron app with “auto update” support out of the box
electron-builder Documentation
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The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
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TypeScript Electron discussion
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Show HN: Edge Drop- #1 productivity and unique clipboard 200 stars on GitHub
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Show HN: Edge Drop – Doing what Microsoft should do for Win+V(Clipboard)
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I made my desktop agent speak SKILL.md — now it can eat the whole skills ecosystem
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ScribeDog alternatives - marktext, Zettlr, Joplin, and logseq
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Designing an agent loop for coding
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Electron projects in TypeScript? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Visual Studio Code | 188,028 |
| 2 | Playwright | 93,720 |
| 3 | AFFiNE | 70,980 |
| 4 | marktext | 59,348 |
| 5 | Joplin | 55,779 |
| 6 | lx-music-desktop | 52,413 |
| 7 | upscayl | 47,647 |
| 8 | siyuan | 45,571 |
| 9 | Trilium Notes | 37,210 |
| 10 | TypeORM | 36,612 |
| 11 | pear-desktop | 32,875 |
| 12 | PicGo | 26,960 |
| 13 | responsively-app | 25,072 |
| 14 | electron-react-boilerplate | 24,251 |
| 15 | notable | 23,486 |
| 16 | beekeeper-studio | 23,289 |
| 17 | desktop | 21,704 |
| 18 | theia | 21,613 |
| 19 | deskreen | 21,229 |
| 20 | Recordly | 20,016 |
| 21 | Kap | 19,209 |
| 22 | nuclear | 18,170 |
| 23 | electron-builder | 14,635 |
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