diff --git a/config/webpack.config.dev.js b/config/webpack.config.dev.js
index 2a163eb4fa0..ef772bf2c2d 100644
--- a/config/webpack.config.dev.js
+++ b/config/webpack.config.dev.js
@@ -50,6 +50,12 @@ module.exports = {
     root: nodeModulesPath,
     moduleTemplates: ['*-loader']
   },
+  target: 'electron-main',
+
+  node: {
+    __dirname: false,
+    __filename: false
+  },
   module: {
     preLoaders: [
       {
diff --git a/config/webpack.config.prod.js b/config/webpack.config.prod.js
index 94f64b087bc..008bd0f284a 100644
--- a/config/webpack.config.prod.js
+++ b/config/webpack.config.prod.js
@@ -46,6 +46,12 @@ module.exports = {
     root: nodeModulesPath,
     moduleTemplates: ['*-loader']
   },
+  target: 'electron-main',
+
+  node: {
+    __dirname: false,
+    __filename: false
+  },
   module: {
     preLoaders: [
       {
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 0bf487482aa..07ad5dfd3b3 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 {
-  "name": "react-scripts",
+  "name": "electron-react-scripts",
   "version": "0.1.0",
   "description": "Configuration and scripts for Create React App.",
   "repository": "facebookincubator/create-react-app",
diff --git a/scripts/init.js b/scripts/init.js
index be5d58b158f..411d178c434 100644
--- a/scripts/init.js
+++ b/scripts/init.js
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ module.exports = function(hostPath, appName, verbose) {
 
   // Copy over some of the devDependencies
   hostPackage.dependencies = hostPackage.dependencies || {};
-  ['react', 'react-dom'].forEach(function (key) {
+  ['react', 'react-dom', 'electron-prebuilt'].forEach(function (key) {
     hostPackage.dependencies[key] = selfPackage.devDependencies[key];
   });
 
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ module.exports = function(hostPath, appName, verbose) {
   fs.move(path.join(hostPath, 'gitignore'), path.join(hostPath, '.gitignore'), []);
 
   // Run another npm install for react and react-dom
-  console.log('Installing react and react-dom from npm...');
+  console.log('Installing react, react-dom, and electron-prebuilt from npm...');
   // TODO: having to do two npm installs is bad, can we avoid it?
   var args = [
     'install',
diff --git a/scripts/openChrome.applescript b/scripts/openChrome.applescript
deleted file mode 100644
index 0035dcad5e6..00000000000
--- a/scripts/openChrome.applescript
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,45 +0,0 @@
--- Copyright (c) 2015-present, Facebook, Inc.
--- All rights reserved.
---
--- This source code is licensed under the BSD-style license found in the
--- LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree. An additional grant
--- of patent rights can be found in the PATENTS file in the same directory.
-on run argv
-  set theURL to item 1 of argv
-
-  tell application "Chrome"
-
-    if (count every window) = 0 then
-      make new window
-    end if
-
-    -- Find a tab currently running the debugger
-    set found to false
-    set theTabIndex to -1
-    repeat with theWindow in every window
-      set theTabIndex to 0
-      repeat with theTab in every tab of theWindow
-        set theTabIndex to theTabIndex + 1
-        if theTab's URL is theURL then
-          set found to true
-          exit repeat
-        end if
-      end repeat
-
-      if found then
-        exit repeat
-      end if
-    end repeat
-
-    if found then
-      tell theTab to reload
-      set index of theWindow to 1
-      set theWindow's active tab index to theTabIndex
-    else
-      tell window 1
-        activate
-        make new tab with properties {URL:theURL}
-      end tell
-    end if
-  end tell
-end run
diff --git a/scripts/start.js b/scripts/start.js
index 2032a526f38..2d7038ef016 100644
--- a/scripts/start.js
+++ b/scripts/start.js
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ var chalk = require('chalk');
 var webpack = require('webpack');
 var WebpackDevServer = require('webpack-dev-server');
 var config = require('../config/webpack.config.dev');
-var execSync = require('child_process').execSync;
+var exec = require('child_process').exec;
 var opn = require('opn');
 
 // TODO: hide this behind a flag and eliminate dead code on eject.
@@ -122,24 +122,13 @@ compiler.plugin('done', function (stats) {
 });
 
 function openBrowser() {
-  if (process.platform === 'darwin') {
-    try {
-      // Try our best to reuse existing tab
-      // on OS X Google Chrome with AppleScript
-      execSync('ps cax | grep "Google Chrome"');
-      execSync(
-        'osascript ' +
-        path.resolve(__dirname, './openChrome.applescript') +
-        ' http://localhost:3000/'
-      );
-      return;
-    } catch (err) {
-      // Ignore errors.
-    }
+  try {
+    // Try our best to reuse existing tab
+    // on OS X Google Chrome with AppleScript
+    exec('electron .');
+  } catch (err) {
+    // Ignore errors.
   }
-  // Fallback to opn
-  // (It will always open new tab)
-  opn('http://localhost:3000/');
 }
 
 new WebpackDevServer(compiler, {