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Desktop WebKit wrapper for HTML/CSS/JS applications.
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Interesting to Note (Node.js support, Windows/Mac/Linux) #82

Closed christopherjones closed 10 years ago

christopherjones commented 11 years ago

Just wanted to post this to see if anyone has checked this out. Looks great, perhaps combining features of both this and MacGap? Works great.

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

jeff-h commented 10 years ago

Node-webkit does indeed work well. However, there are questions over its ability to be accepted into the Mac App Store (although at least one node-webkit app has been accepted). Also, the really big downside to node-webkit is that it is... well... really big! Apps are between 50 and 100MB in my experience.

As I've posted on a couple of other issues now, we're having success using Nodelike with MacGap, which provides the best of both worlds.

The Nodelike project (see https://github.com/node-app/Nodelike) provides a node.js-compatible API to web views. We've successfully combined Nodelike with MacGap, meaning javascript in MacGap now has access to both the usual MacGap API as well as the node.js API.

See: https://github.com/node-app/macgap for a pre-combined package of MacGap plus Nodelike https://github.com/node-app/Nodelike/wiki/How-to-integrate-Nodelike-with-MacGap