bmatusiak Posted March 21, 2013 Share Posted March 21, 2013 Hey guys, if you havent see this, its worth checking into.. https://github.com/rogerwang/node-webkit What exactly does this do?? node-webkit is an app runtime based on Chromium and node.js. You can write native apps in HTML and Javascript with node-webkit. It also lets you to call Node.js modules directly from DOM and enables a new way of writing native applications with all Web technologies.It's created and developed in Intel Open Source Technology Center. Its also provides a way to protect your javascript code heres a example node-webkit app you can look at for examples https://github.com/brads-tools/node-webkit-ace-editor hima and bmatusiak 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hima Posted March 23, 2013 Share Posted March 23, 2013 Thanks for sharing! Was looking for something to help build a native desktop app for my visual novel game. Will try this one I have time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Wilson Posted March 23, 2013 Share Posted March 23, 2013 There's also AppJS (which uses nodejs + Chromium) and TideSDK (which uses webkit). I've found the latter very easy to use and well documented, but I'm guessing the JS performance isn't as good as the other two projects, which use V8 I believe. All three give you Windows, OSX, and Linux. soybean 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hima Posted March 24, 2013 Share Posted March 24, 2013 Just tried Node-Webkit and it's incredibly easy to use. The performance is also great.The downside is that if you want to package the player binary along with the game, the size will be at least 60 MB or so. (Not a big cons, I suppose) There's also AppJS (which uses nodejs + Chromium) and TideSDK (which uses webkit). I've found the latter very easy to use and well documented, but I'm guessing the JS performance isn't as good as the other two projects, which use V8 I believe. All three give you Windows, OSX, and Linux.I tried TideSDK, but the performance was so poor. The team told me that they already improved this in the beta but I haven't gotten my hand on the beta yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmatusiak Posted March 26, 2013 Author Share Posted March 26, 2013 node-webkit has been a +1 for me because it included nodejs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dreta Posted March 29, 2013 Share Posted March 29, 2013 Can anybody say how does working with text files look in those frameworks? Can you use AJAX or do you have to rely on the File API (I'm assuming Chromium has it, since Chrome does)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ezelia Posted March 29, 2013 Share Posted March 29, 2013 thank you for sharing !I was looking for something that can embed a server (nodejs) and client in a single exe for a while ! I'll give it a try bmatusiak 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmatusiak Posted April 8, 2013 Author Share Posted April 8, 2013 Can anybody say how does working with text files look in those frameworks? Can you use AJAX or do you have to rely on the File API (I'm assuming Chromium has it, since Chrome does)? I would use nodejs as much as i can in this framework, but node-webkit does allow you to use the file:// system to read files if you want or you can use the FS object api that nodejs supplies Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmatusiak Posted April 8, 2013 Author Share Posted April 8, 2013 heres a example node-webkit app you can look at for examples https://github.com/brads-tools/node-webkit-ace-editor Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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