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NW.js Essentials

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NW.js Essentials

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (17 chapters)
NW.js Essentials
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

NW.js boilerplates


When starting a new NW.js project, it comes in really handy to have some kind of boilerplate that provides not only all the basic stuff but also coding standards, tools, and architectural hints (we've already seen the generator-node-webkit in Chapter 7, Automated Packaging Tools).

There are many technologies involved, most of which you might never have heard of, and you'll need to learn before getting serious, so pick carefully the one that best suits your needs.

node-webkit-hipster-seed

Download link: https://github.com/Anonyfox/node-webkit-hipster-seed

This is one of the most popular NW.js boilerplates. Between its ingredients, we can find CoffeeScript, Less, Jade, Angular.js, and Twitter Bootstrap. We can also find Brunch for code compilation, Karma for testing, and grunt-node-webkit-builder for building NW.js packages.

angular-desktop-app

Download link: https://github.com/jgrenon/angular-desktop-app

This is a simple application skeleton to create desktop applications using...