Check if Electron is running in development

Useful for enabling debug features only during development.

This package must be used from the Electron main process.

npm install electron-is-dev

Requires Electron 28 or later.

import isDev from 'electron-is-dev';

if (isDev) {
	console.log('Running in development');
} else {
	console.log('Running in production');
}

You can force development mode by setting the ELECTRON_IS_DEV environment variable to 1.

This package existed long before that property. The benefit of this package is that you can override the value using an environment variable.

You can use contextBridge in the preload script to manually expose the variable:

import {contextBridge} from 'electron';
import isDev from 'electron-is-dev';

contextBridge.exposeInMainWorld('isDev', isDev);

You can then access it in globalThis from the renderer process:

console.log(globalThis.isDev);

• electron-util - Useful utilities for developing Electron apps
• electron-debug - Adds useful debug features to your Electron app