# node-webkit
**Repository Path**: mirrors_asmodehn/node-webkit
## Basic Information
- **Project Name**: node-webkit
- **Description**: Call all Node.js modules directly from DOM and enable a new way of writing applications with all Web technologies.
- **Primary Language**: Unknown
- **License**: MIT
- **Default Branch**: master
- **Homepage**: None
- **GVP Project**: No
## Statistics
- **Stars**: 0
- **Forks**: 0
- **Created**: 2020-09-24
- **Last Updated**: 2026-05-30
## Categories & Tags
**Categories**: Uncategorized
**Tags**: None
## README
## Introduction
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
call Node.js modules directly from the DOM and enables a new way of writing
native applications with all Web technologies.
It's created and developed in the Intel Open Source Technology Center.
[Introduction to node-webkit (slides)](https://speakerdeck.com/u/zcbenz/p/node-webkit-app-runtime-based-on-chromium-and-node-dot-js).
## Features
* Apps written in modern HTML5, CSS3, JS and WebGL.
* Complete support for [Node.js APIs](http://nodejs.org/api/) and all its [third party modules](https://npmjs.org).
* Good performance: Node and WebKit runs in the same thread: Function calls are made straightforward; objects are in the same heap and can just reference each other;
* Easy to package and distribute apps.
* Available on Linux, Mac OSX and Windows
## Downloads
[v0.7.5 release notes](https://groups.google.com/d/msg/node-webkit/4VBQuHO2H0c/UAdc2O1ZiBwJ)
Prebuilt binaries (v0.7.5 - Sep 18, 2013):
* Linux: [32bit](https://s3.amazonaws.com/node-webkit/v0.7.5/node-webkit-v0.7.5-linux-ia32.tar.gz) / [64bit] (https://s3.amazonaws.com/node-webkit/v0.7.5/node-webkit-v0.7.5-linux-x64.tar.gz)
* Windows: [win32](https://s3.amazonaws.com/node-webkit/v0.7.5/node-webkit-v0.7.5-win-ia32.zip)
* Mac: [32bit, 10.7+](https://s3.amazonaws.com/node-webkit/v0.7.5/node-webkit-v0.7.5-osx-ia32.zip)
[Looking for older versions?](https://github.com/rogerwang/node-webkit/wiki/Downloads-of-old-versions)
###Demos and real apps
You may also be interested in [our demos repository](https://github.com/zcbenz/nw-sample-apps) and the [List of apps and companies using node-webkit](https://github.com/rogerwang/node-webkit/wiki/List-of-apps-and-companies-using-node-webkit).
## Quick Start
Create `index.html`:
```html
Hello World!
Hello World!
We are using node.js .
```
Create `package.json`:
```json
{
"name": "nw-demo",
"main": "index.html"
}
```
Compress `index.html` and `package.json` into a zip archive called `app.nw`:
````bash
$ zip app.nw index.html package.json
````
This should create a structure like this:
```
app.nw
|-- package.json
`-- index.html
```
Download the prebuilt binary for your platform and use it to open the
`app.nw` file:
````bash
$ ./nw app.nw
````
Note: on Windows, you can drag the `app.nw` to `nw.exe` to open it.
## Documents
For more information on how to write/package/run apps, see:
* [How to run apps](https://github.com/rogerwang/node-webkit/wiki/How-to-run-apps)
* [How to package and distribute your apps](https://github.com/rogerwang/node-webkit/wiki/How-to-package-and-distribute-your-apps)
* [How to use Node.js modules in node-webkit](https://github.com/rogerwang/node-webkit/wiki/Using-Node-modules)
And our [Wiki](https://github.com/rogerwang/node-webkit/wiki) for much more.
## Community
We use the [node-webkit group](http://groups.google.com/group/node-webkit) as
our mailing list. Subscribe via [node-webkit+subscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:node-webkit+subscribe@googlegroups.com).
Issues are being tracked here on GitHub.
## License
`node-webkit`'s code in this repo uses the MIT license, see our `LICENSE` file. To redistribute the binary, see [How to package and distribute your apps](https://github.com/rogerwang/node-webkit/wiki/How-to-package-and-distribute-your-apps)