electron-best-practices

SKILL.md

Electron + React Best Practices

Guide AI agents in building secure, production-ready Electron applications with React. This skill provides security patterns, type-safe IPC communication, project setup guidance, packaging and code signing workflows, and tools for analysis, scaffolding, and type generation.

When to Use This Skill

Use this skill when:

Generating Electron main, preload, or renderer process code

Configuring electron-vite or Electron Forge

Setting up IPC communication between processes

Implementing security patterns (contextBridge, sandbox, CSP)

Packaging, signing, and notarizing desktop applications

Testing Electron apps with Playwright

Designing multi-window architectures