What is Electron on Mac?
By Junaid, maker of Taskglass · Last reviewed
An app built with Electron that hasn't been given its own name, often during development.
Electron is the framework many desktop apps are built with (Slack, VS Code, Discord and others). Finished apps normally rename it, so a process simply called 'Electron' is usually an app being developed or run from source, or a tool that kept the default name. Check its file path to see which app it belongs to.
- Category
- Developer tools
- Made by
- OpenJS Foundation (open source)
- Safe to quit:
- Yes
Shown in Activity Monitor as Electron
Why is Electron using so much CPU or memory?
- A development build of an app running
- Web content or scripts in the app doing heavy work
What to do
- 1Check the process's file path to identify the app
- 2Quit that app or stop the development server that launched it
Safe to quit? Yes.
Generally safe; the app it belongs to closes.
Related processes
Part of the Taskglass Process Library