electron/docs/tutorial/macos-dock.md
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---
title: Dock
description: Configure your application's Dock presence on macOS.
slug: macos-dock
hide_title: true
---
# Dock
Electron has APIs to configure the app's icon in the macOS Dock. A macOS-only
API exists to create a custom dock menu, but Electron also uses the app dock
icon as the entry point for cross-platform features like
[recent documents][recent-documents] and [application progress][progress-bar].
The custom dock is commonly used to add shortcuts to tasks the user wouldn't
want to open the whole app window for.
**Dock menu of Terminal.app:**
![Dock Menu][dock-menu-image]
To set your custom dock menu, you need to use the
[`app.dock.setMenu`](../api/dock.md#docksetmenumenu-macos) API,
which is only available on macOS.
```javascript fiddle='docs/fiddles/features/macos-dock-menu'
const { app, BrowserWindow, Menu } = require('electron')
const createWindow = () => {
const win = new BrowserWindow({
width: 800,
height: 600
})
win.loadFile('index.html')
}
const dockMenu = Menu.buildFromTemplate([
{
label: 'New Window',
click () { console.log('New Window') }
}, {
label: 'New Window with Settings',
submenu: [
{ label: 'Basic' },
{ label: 'Pro' }
]
},
{ label: 'New Command...' }
])
app.whenReady().then(() => {
if (process.platform === 'darwin') {
app.dock.setMenu(dockMenu)
}
}).then(createWindow)
app.on('window-all-closed', () => {
if (process.platform !== 'darwin') {
app.quit()
}
})
app.on('activate', () => {
if (BrowserWindow.getAllWindows().length === 0) {
createWindow()
}
})
```
After launching the Electron application, right click the application icon.
You should see the custom menu you just defined:
![macOS dock menu](../images/macos-dock-menu.png)
[dock-menu-image]: https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/639601/5069962/6032658a-6e9c-11e4-9953-aa84006bdfff.png
[recent-documents]: ./recent-documents.md
[progress-bar]: ./progress-bar.md