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NW.js Essentials

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NW.js Essentials

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NW.js Essentials
May, 2015 | 192 pages
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Table of Contents (17 chapters)
NW.js Essentials
NW.js Essentials
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Meet NW.js
Meet NW.js
NW.js under the hood
Features and drawbacks of NW.js
Downloading and installing NW.js
Development tools
Writing and running your first "Hello World" app
Summary
2
NW.js Native UI APIs
NW.js Native UI APIs
The App API – the core of your applications
The Window API – working with windows on NW.js
The Screen API – screen geometry functions
The Menu API – handling window and context menus
File dialogs – opening and saving files
Opening files through file dragging
The Tray API – hide your application in plain sight
The Clipboard API – accessing the system clipboard
The Shell API – platform-dependent desktop functions
Summary
3
Leveraging the Power of Node.js
Leveraging the Power of Node.js
Routing and templating in NW.js
Node.js global and process objects
The window object
Using NW.js' main module
Handling paths in NW.js
NW.js context issues
Working with Node.js modules
Summary
4
Data Persistence Solutions and Other Browser Web APIs
Data Persistence Solutions and Other Browser Web APIs
Data persistence solutions
XMLHttpRequest and BLOBs
Handling media files
Shedding some light on security issues
The Web Notifications API
Summary
5
Let's Put It All Together
Let's Put It All Together
Let's get started!
A matter of style
The HTML5 skeleton
Let's dive deep into the application logic
The application layer
The NativeUI layer
Summary
6
Packaging Your Application for Distribution
Packaging Your Application for Distribution
The manifest file
The general logic behind the packaging procedure
Packaging NW.js applications for Mac OS X
Packaging NW.js applications for Microsoft Windows
Packaging NW.js applications for Linux
Securing your source code
About NW.js application licensing
Summary
7
Automated Packaging Tools
Automated Packaging Tools
Web2Executable
node-webkit-builder and grunt-node-webkit-builder
generator-node-webkit
Summary
8
Let's Debug Your Application
Let's Debug Your Application
Remote debugging
The DevTools API
Live reloading NW.js
Troubleshooting common issues
Summary
9
Taking Your Application to the Next Level
Taking Your Application to the Next Level
NW.js boilerplates
Development ideas
Resources and tutorials
Summary
Index
Index

About the Author

Alessandro Benoit is a 31-year-old web developer from Italy. He currently works both with backend and frontend technologies, ranging from PHP development, mostly on WordPress and Laravel, to web design and building open source jQuery plugins. He's also an early adopter of NW.js and the developer of Nuwk!, an open source application that simplifies the building process of NW.js applications on Mac OS X.

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