node-desktop-quickstart

A simple Node.js/Chromium desktop quickstart, which can run on both Electron and NW.js. Useful for testing JavaScript libraries.

Files

• package.json: Installs prebuilt versions of Electron and NW.js, and configures various startup options for the app.
• index.html: HTML file used for the app.
• main.js: First script executed in the main process/Node context, which is used to further execute either electron/main.js or nw/node.js.
• renderer.js: First script executed in the renderer process/browser context, which is used to further execute either electron/renderer.js or nw/browser.js. Common functions can be exposed as globals here for easy access from both Electron and NW.js.
• electron/main.js: Script which will be executed in Electron's main process, used to open the first Electron window.
• electron/renderer.js: Script which will be executed in Electron's renderer process.
• nw/node.js: Script which will be executed in NW.js's Node context, used to open the first NW.js window.
• nw/browser.js: Script which will be executed in NW.js's browser context.

Usage

You’ll need to have Git and Node.js (which comes with npm) installed on your computer.

# Clone this repository.
$ git clone https://github.com/demoneaux/node-desktop-quickstart

# Go into the repository.
$ cd node-desktop-quickstart

# Install dependencies - prebuilt versions of Electron and NW.js.
$ npm install

# Run the app.
$ npm run electron  # Run on Electron.
$ npm run nw        # Run on NW.js.

Current Versions

Framework	Version	Node	Chromium
Electron	1.7.11	7.9.0	58
NW.js	0.28.0 (SDK)	9.4.0	64