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.
Create index.html
:
<html> <head> <title>Hello World!</title> </head> <body> <h1>Hello World!</h1> We are using node.js <script>document.write(process.version)</script> </body> </html>
Create package.json
:
{
"name": "nw-demo",
"main": "index.html"
}
Compress index.html
and package.json
into a zip archive, and rename
it to app.nw
:
app.nw
|-- package.json
`-- index.html
Download the prebuilt binary for your platform and use it to open the
app.nw
file:
$ ./nw app.nw
Note: on Windows, you can drag the app.nw
to nw.exe
to open it.