Electron Projects

Packaging for macOS

If you intend to publish our application to the App Store, you should provide an application ID and category settings. Open the project's package.json file for editing, and append the following section to the end of the file:

{  "build": {    "appId": "com.my.app.id",    "mac": {      "category": "public.app-category.utilities"    }  }}

Feel free to customize the values and provide the relevant information later. For now, you can leave those values as they are.

There are two ways you can build your application: through the development and production modes. Let's start with the development script, which allows you to quickly run and see that your application is working as expected:

1. Update the package.json file and add the build:macos ...