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Install for Electron

For an application that is built using [Electron](https://github.com/atom/Electron) you'll need to have the `engines.electron` set to the version of Electron that you are targeting in your root `package.json` file.

For example if you have an Electron app that's targeting version 0.20.7 your package.json file would look something like:

{

"name": "elec-app",

"displayName": "My Electron app",

"version": "0.0.1",

"description": "",

"main": "main.js",

"author": "",

"engines": {

"electron": "0.20.7"

}

}

And when doing an `npm install` or `apm install` inside of your Electron's root folder it will compile NodeGit targeting that version of Electron during the install.

*NOTE: there are no pre-built binaries for Electron, you must rebuild NodeGit. Visit our [building guides](../from-source) for help*

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