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electron-packager

Customize and package your Electron app with OS-specific bundles (.app, .exe, etc.) via JS or CLI

v17.1.2, 18 Aug 2023BSD-2-ClauseCommonJSTypes: BundledBundlers
$ npm install electron-packager
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Deprecated on npm
Please use @electron/packager moving forward. There is no API change, just a package name change

Key numbers

As of 25 Sept 2026
Weekly downloads
433.9k
+241% over 12 months
Gzip bundle size
-
No Bundlephobia data
Dependencies
19
Direct, from package.json
Last release
3 years ago
v17.1.2
GitHub stars
302
44 forks
Open issues / PRs
12 / 2
Contributors
-
Commits, last 52 weeks
110

Downloads

Last week 2026-09-15 to 2026-09-21
0200k400k600k800kSept 2025Mar 2026Sept 2026High 623.6k (25 Aug 2026)Low 87.5k (28 Oct 2025)
Weekly npm downloads, one point per week, weeks starting 23 Sept 2025 to 15 Sept 2026. The y axis starts at zero.

433,917 downloads last week. The 12-month change of +241% compares the average of the last 4 weeks with the first 4 weeks of the series.

Maintenance

Releases, last 12 months
096 in total
Latest version
17.1.2, 18 Aug 20233 years ago
First published
27 Apr 2015
Last push to GitHub
23 Sept 20261 day before the snapshot
Repository archived
No
Open issues
12
Open pull requests
2
Commits, last 52 weeks
110
Dependents on npm
-

Major versions

  1. v17 first release 17.0.0, 19 Oct 2022
  2. v16 first release 16.0.0, 23 Aug 2022
  3. v15 first release 15.0.0, 27 Jun 2020
  4. v14 first release 14.0.0, 20 Jun 2019
  5. v13 first release 13.0.0, 5 Dec 2018
  6. v12 first release 12.0.0, 3 Apr 2018
  7. v11 first release 11.0.0, 7 Feb 2018
  8. v10 first release 10.0.0, 20 Nov 2017
  9. v9 first release 9.0.0, 24 Aug 2017
  10. v8 first release 8.0.0, 3 Sept 2016
  11. v7 first release 7.0.0, 18 Apr 2016
  12. v6 first release 6.0.0, 28 Mar 2016
  13. v5 first release 5.0.0, 1 Jul 2015
  14. v4 first release 4.0.0, 10 May 2015
  15. v3 first release 3.0.0, 27 Apr 2015

Recent releases

VersionPublished
17.1.218 Aug 2023
17.1.11 Nov 2022
17.1.031 Oct 2022
17.0.019 Oct 2022
16.0.023 Aug 2022
15.5.223 Aug 2022
15.5.120 Apr 2022
15.5.019 Apr 2022
15.4.010 Sept 2021
15.3.018 Jul 2021
15.2.04 Dec 2020
15.1.021 Aug 2020
15.0.027 Jun 2020
14.2.17 Feb 2020

Compatibility

Module format
CommonJSFrom package.json type, main and exports fields
TypeScript types
Bundled
Node.js engine range
>= 14.17.5
Runtimes
-
Unpacked size (npm)
142 kB
Dependencies (19)
junkdebugplistrceditsemverresolvefs-extragalactusfilenamifyextract-zipparse-authoryargs-parser@electron/get@electron/asarget-package-info@electron/notarize@electron/osx-sign@electron/universalcross-spawn-windows-exe

Install

npm install electron-packager

CDN

  • jsDelivrhttps://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/electron-packager@17.1.2/
  • unpkghttps://unpkg.com/electron-packager@17.1.2/
  • esm.shhttps://esm.sh/electron-packager@17.1.2
Sources: npm registry, npm downloads API, GitHub API. Data fetched 25 Sept 2026.

Indexability: Not indexed (discovery only): deprecated.