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title: Electron Userland
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date: 2016-12-20T00:00:00.000Z
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authors: zeke
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slug: userland
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tags: [community, ecosystem]
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---
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We've added a new [userland](https://electronjs.org/userland) section to
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the Electron website to help users discover the people, packages, and apps that make
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up our flourishing open-source ecosystem.
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[](https://electronjs.org/userland)
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## Origins of Userland
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Userland is where people in software communities come together to share tools and ideas.
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The term originated in the Unix community, where it referred to
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any program that ran outside of the kernel, but today it means something more.
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When people in today's Javascript community refer to userland, they're usually
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talking about the [npm package registry](http://npm.im). This is where the majority of experimentation and
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innovation happens, while Node and the JavaScript language (like the Unix kernel) retain
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a relatively small and stable set of core features.
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## Node and Electron
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Like Node, Electron has a small set of core APIs. These provide
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the basic features needed for developing multi-platform desktop applications.
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This design philosophy allows Electron to remain a flexible tool without being
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overly prescriptive about how it should be used.
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Userland is the counterpart to "core", enabling users to
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create and share tools that extend Electron's functionality.
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## Collecting data
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To better understand the trends in our ecosystem, we
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analyzed metadata from 15,000 public GitHub repositories
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that depend on `electron` or `electron-prebuilt`
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We used the
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[GitHub API](https://developer.github.com/v3/),
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the
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[libraries.io API](https://libraries.io/api),
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and the npm registry to gather info about dependencies,
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development dependencies, dependents, package authors,
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repo contributors, download counts, fork counts, stargazer
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counts, etc.
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We then used this data to generate the following reports:
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- [App Development Dependencies](https://electronjs.org/userland/dev_dependencies): Packages most often listed as `devDependencies` in Electron apps.
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- [GitHub Contributors](https://electronjs.org/userland/github_contributors): GitHub users who have contributed to numerous Electron-related GitHub repositories.
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- [Package Dependencies](https://electronjs.org/userland/package_dependencies): Electron-related npm packages that are frequently depended on by other npm packages.
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- [Starred Apps](https://electronjs.org/userland/starred_apps): Electron apps (that are not npm packages) with numerous stargazers.
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- [Most Downloaded Packages](https://electronjs.org/userland/most_downloaded_packages): Electron-related npm packages that are downloaded a lot.
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- [App Dependencies](https://electronjs.org/userland/dependencies): Packages most often listed as `dependencies` in Electron apps.
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- [Package Authors](https://electronjs.org/userland/package_authors): The most prolific authors of Electron-related npm packages.
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## Filtering Results
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Reports like
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[app dependencies](https://electronjs.org/userland/dependencies) and
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[starred apps](https://electronjs.org/userland/starred_apps)
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which list packages, apps, and repos have a text input that can be used to
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filter the results.
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As you type into this input, the URL of the page is updated dynamically. This
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allows you to copy a URL representing a particular slice of userland data,
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then share it with others.
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[](https://electronjs.org/userland/dev_dependencies?q=babel%20preset)
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## More to come
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This first set of reports is just the beginning. We will continue to collect
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data about how the community is building Electron, and will be adding
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new reports to the website.
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All of the tools used to collect and display this data are open-source:
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- [electron/electronjs.org](https://github.com/electron/electron.atom): The Electron website.
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- [electron/electron-userland-reports](https://github.com/electron/electron-userland-reports): Slices of data about packages, repos, and users in Electron userland.
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- [electron/repos-using-electron](https://github.com/electron/repos-using-electron): All public repositories on GitHub that depend on `electron` or `electron-prebuilt`
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- [electron/electron-npm-packages](https://github.com/zeke/electron-npm-packages): All npm packages that mention `electron` in their `package.json` file.
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If you have ideas about how to improve these reports, please let us know
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[opening an issue on the website repository](https://github.com/electron/electronjs.org/issues/new)
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or any of the above-mentioned repos.
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Thanks to you, the Electron community, for making userland what it is today!
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