YouTube Desktop

YouTube Desktop is a simple Desktop application for watching YouTube, built using ElectronJS.

Features

• Control for Hardware Acceleration

Installation

Dowload the latest release for Windows, Linux and MacOS.

For Windows... a standard Exectuable is provided, as well as a NuGet package. RPM and DEB packages are availbe for Linux Distrubtions (not tested!).

Launching

To run, just launch the executable via the Desktop Shortcut, or the Executable directly.

Building

To build locally, clone the repository and install the dependencies.

git clone https://github.com/mikepruett3/youtube-desktop.git
cd youtube-desktop
npm install

To run the application locally.

npm run test

To build the application installer.

npm run make

Dependencies

• electron
• electron-forge
• electron-store
• publisher-github

Errata

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