electron-forge

Installation
SKILL.md

Electron Forge is an all-in-one tool for packaging and distributing Electron applications. It combines packaging, code signing, installers, and publishing into one pipeline and supports custom plugins, makers, and publishers.

Skills are based on Electron Forge (docs as of 2026-01-30), generated from electron-forge-docs.

Core References

Topic Description Reference
Why Electron Forge Motivation, value proposition, Forge vs Builder core-why-electron-forge
Build Lifecycle Package → Make → Publish; hooks; cross-platform core-build-lifecycle
CLI Init, import, package, make, publish, start; flags; programmatic API core-cli

Configuration

Topic Description Reference
Configuration forge.config.js, packagerConfig, makers, publishers, plugins, hooks, buildIdentifier config-configuration
Hooks generateAssets, preStart, postPackage, preMake, postMake, readPackageJson, etc. config-hooks
TypeScript config forge.config.ts, ForgeConfig, constructor syntax config-typescript
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hairyf/skills
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Feb 2, 2026