iohook is a global native keyboard and mouse listener for Node.js. This is a fork of https://github.com/wilix-team/iohook, which is abandoned and unmainntained.

We provide a modern CI pipeline for easy, fast, reliable, builds of iohook for modern versions of Node and Electron. At Robolab, we use this library in MechaKeys, the integrated typing environment.

• Versions >= 0.9.4 support Electron 25 and Node 18
• For older version support, use the wilix-team library

# Install MechaKeys iohook
npm install --save @mechakeys/iohook

# Install prebuilt binaries for your platform, architecture, and ABIs.
cd ./node_modules/@mechakeys/iohook
npm i
node install.js

By default, prebuilds will be downloaded for your own platform and architecture, but you can download specific ones through your package.json:

"iohook": {
    "targets": [
        "node-108",
        "electron-116"
    ],
    "platforms": [
        "win32",
        "darwin",
        "linux"
    ],
    "arches": [
        "x64",
    ]
}

As of right now, we do not build 32-bit versions.