Support building desktop apps

[marcooliveira]

The build task that is created when the project is scaffolded should be able to build the application into specific targets (Linux, MacOSX, Windows).

This building process must be part of the project itself, as the user might want to change how the build is done, and which technologies are used. Still, we should already have production ready recipe, using a technology we feel is a good choice.

Possible candidates:

• app.js - https://github.com/appjs/appjs
• node-webkit - https://github.com/rogerwang/node-webkit
• TideSDK - http://www.tidesdk.org/
• CEF - https://code.google.com/p/chromiumembedded/
• Brackets shell - http://clintberry.com/2013/html5-desktop-apps-with-brackets-shell/

[marcooliveira]

Important criteria selecting a technology:

• Support for most operating systems and respective architectures (pay attention to 32/64 bits)
• Gains in speed (GPU acceleration, other)
• Access to machine through simple API, preferably simply using NodeJS
• Ability to tweak the build of Chromium, in order to activate certain flags, like chrome_media for FLAC support, etc
• Stability of the project, and amount of community supporting it