Ambient Light

Ambient Light is a lightweight Electron-based utility that creates a soft white frame around your screen to provide additional ambient illumination.
It is particularly useful when working late at night or in low-light environments.

Tested on macOS Thaoe 26.1.

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Features

• Full-screen transparent overlay
• White ambient light frame on all screen edges
• Ability to select colors
• Non-intrusive (mouse events pass through to underlying applications)
• Can be packaged as a standalone macOS application

Running the Project Locally

To run the application in development mode:

rm -rf node_modules package-lock.json
npm install
npm start

Packaging as a Desktop Application

You can build a distributable macOS application using:

rm -rf node_modules package-lock.json
npm install

npx electron-packager . "Ambient Light" \
  --platform=darwin \
  --arch=x64,arm64 \
  --icon=icon.png \
  --out=dist \
  --overwrite

The packaged application will be generated inside the dist/ directory.

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Special thanks to Başak Ülker ❤️ for her feedbacks