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NW.js Essentials

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Product type Book
Published in May 2015
Publisher
ISBN-13 9781785280863
Pages 192 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages

Table of Contents (17) Chapters

NW.js Essentials
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Meet NW.js 2. NW.js Native UI APIs 3. Leveraging the Power of Node.js 4. Data Persistence Solutions and Other Browser Web APIs 5. Let's Put It All Together 6. Packaging Your Application for Distribution 7. Automated Packaging Tools 8. Let's Debug Your Application 9. Taking Your Application to the Next Level Index

generator-node-webkit


The project link for generator-node-webkit is https://github.com/Dica-Developer/generator-node-webkit.

generator-node-webkit is a Yeoman generator for NW.js. Unlike previously reviewed tools, it not only provides an easy way to package NW.js applications, but also enforces good coding standards and comes with tools and a basic folder structure to start your project from.

You're probably familiar with Yeoman already, but if you're not, it's a Node.js-based tool for scaffolding web applications, which is perfectly applicable to our case. You can easily install Yeoman globally with npm:

$ npm install -g yo

Once you're done with it, you can also install generator-node-webkit:

$ npm install -g generator-node-webkit

Eventually, create a new folder for your project and start the generator with the following command:

$ yo node-webkit

If everything went right, a screen, much like the one in the following screenshot, should appear:

As you can see, you'll be asked to answer a few...

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