Native Desktop App with Node-Webkit

!

(Javascript, HTML, CSS)

Eddie Lau @tatonlto

github.com/3dd13

I love Web App

Centralized Easy to deploy Cross-platform

Single-code-base(if there is no IE)

But

Sometimes

Desktop App!is better than Web App

One click installer No server

No internet Native functionality

(actually … HTML5 & Chrome App can do most too !)

But, but

single-code-base cross-platform

Desktop App development is …

DAMN HARD

Raise hand if you have written any

Java Swing

so … few months ago

I saw Node-Webkit

https://github.com/rogerwang/node-webkit

^___^

Node-Webkit build

a .exe / .app which contains

Node.js & Webkit

what does that mean ?

Node.js!allows you to write Desktop program!

using JS

Webkit!allows you to write Desktop App UI!

using!HTML, CSS & JS

the packaging was clumsy though

!https://github.com/rogerwang/node-webkit/wiki/How-to-

package-and-distribute-your-apps

(height of packaging documentation === 5 * window.height)

Have to zip everytime to test updated .app

T__T

yesterday I saw

Grunt-Node-Webkit-Builderhttps://github.com/mllrsohn/grunt-node-webkit-builder

grunt

\ ( ^ ^ ) /

Demohttps://github.com/3dd13/sample-nw

Questions ?Eddie Lau @tatonlto

github.com/3dd13