makers

description
Generate platform specific distributables for Electron apps using Electron Forge.

Makers

Makers are Electron Forge's way of taking your packaged application and generating platform-specific distributable formats like dmg.md, appx.md, or flatpak.md files (amongst others).

Each maker has to be configured in the makers section of your Forge configuration. For example:

{% tabs %} {% tab title="forge.config.js" %}

module.exports = {
  makers: [
    {
      name: '@electron-forge/maker-zip',
      platforms: ['darwin', 'linux'],
      config: {
        // the config can be an object
      }
    },
    {
      name: '@electron-forge/maker-dmg',
      config: (arch) => ({
        // it can also be a function taking the currently built arch
        // as a parameter and returning a config object, e.g.
      })
    }
  ]
};

{% endtab %}

{% tab title="package.json" %}

// Only showing the relevant configuration for brevity
{
  "config": {
    "forge": {
      "makers": [
        {
          "name": "@electron-forge/maker-zip",
          "platforms": ["darwin", "linux"], // optional
          "config": {
              // Config here
          }
        }
      ]
    }
  }
}

{% endtab %} {% endtabs %}

{% hint style="info" %} If a Maker supports multiple platforms, you may specify which platforms you want to target. Note that all Makers have logical defaults for the platforms value so you normally don't need to specify that property. {% endhint %}