Node.js deskgap.com

Deskgap — build cross-platform desktop apps with web technologies  ↦

logged by adamstac 2019-04-05T12:55:00Z #node +2

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before…the difference is DeskGap leverages the operating system‘s webview instead of baking a browser in with it (like Electron).

DeskGap is a framework for building cross-platform desktop apps with web technologies (JavaScript, HTML and CSS).

To enable native capabilities while keeping the size down, DeskGap bundles a Node.js runtime and leaves the HTML rendering to the operating system‘s webview.

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Jerod Santo

Jerod Santo

Bennington, Nebraska

Jerod co-hosts The Changelog, crashes JS Party & takes out the trash (his old code) once in awhile.

2019-04-05T14:34:01Z ago

Noteworthy:

DeskGap is at its early stage. The API is still quite limited compared to Electron. Many functionalities are under development and some of them will probably never be possible. See this and this for more information.

It’d be cool to see/try a few apps built with DeskGap to compare with Electron apps, but are we a ways off from that?

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