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Official site: https://nwjs.io

NW.js is an app runtime based on Chromium and node.js. You can write native apps in HTML and JavaScript with NW.js. 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 was created in the Intel Open Source Technology Center.

Building a Cross-platform Desktop App with NW.js Creating Desktop Applications With node-webkit WebApp to DesktopApp with node-webkit (slides) Essay on the history and internals of the project

v0.71.0: (Dec 8, 2022, based off of Node.js v19.0.0, Chromium 108.0.5359.95) : release notes NOTE You might want the SDK build. Please read the release notes.

Linux: 32bit / 64bit

Windows: 32bit / 64bit

Mac 10.10+: 64bit

Use Legacy build for Win XP and early OSX.

latest nightly build from git tip: https://dl.nwjs.io/live-build/

Previous versions; See the mapping file for the version info in previous releases.

You may also be interested in our demos repository and the List of apps and companies using nw.js.

Create index.html:

Create package.json:

Run:

Note: on Windows, you can drag the folder containing package.json to nw.exe to open it.

Note: on OSX, the executable binary is in a hidden directory within the .app file. To run node-webkit on OSX, type: /path/to/nwjs.app/Contents/MacOS/nwjs . (suppose the current directory contains 'package.json')

Official documentation: http://docs.nwjs.io/

For more information on how to write/package/run apps, see:

And our Wiki for much more.

We use the google group as our mailing list (use English only). Subscribe via [email protected].

NOTE: Links to the old google group (e.g. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/node-webkit/doRWZ07LgWQ/4fheV8FF8zsJ) that are no longer working can be fixed by replacing node-webkit with nwjs-general (e.g https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/nwjs-general/doRWZ07LgWQ/4fheV8FF8zsJ).

Issues are being tracked here on GitHub.

The source code for NW.js and the daily development spans multiple repositories in this organization. This repository is for issue tracking, landing page, and part of the source code.

Starting from 0.32.0 the stable and nightly download directories contain a SHASUMS256.txt file that lists the SHA checksums for each file available for download, as well as the checksums for the files inside the download package.

The SHASUMS256.txt can be downloaded using curl.

To check that a downloaded file matches the checksum, run it through sha256sum with a command such as:

The stable releases (but not Nightlies) also have the GPG detached signature of SHASUMS256.txt available as SHASUMS256.txt.asc. You can use gpg to verify that SHASUMS256.txt has not been tampered with.

To verify SHASUMS256.txt has not been altered, you will first need to import the GPG key of NW.js maintainer to create releases. Use this command to import the key:

Next, download the SHASUMS256.txt.asc for the release:

After downloading the appropriate SHASUMS256.txt and SHASUMS256.txt.asc files, you can then use gpg --verify SHASUMS256.txt.asc SHASUMS256.txt to verify that the file has been signed by an authorized member of the NW.js team.

Once verified, use the SHASUMS256.txt file to get the checksum for the binary verification command above.

NW.js'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