Beyond The Browser: From Web Apps To Desktop Apps
Adam Lynch
node-webkit
Under the hood of a hybrid (app)
Adam Lynch
It has been about a year since we had A peek under the hood of Teamwork Chat. Since then, we’ve added a few nice features, fixed some bugs, and introduced a couple. You know how it goes. More...
Resurrecting Clippy
Adam Lynch
Remember Clippy? First shipped with Windows 97, Clippy was a “smart” assistant for Microsoft Office. A selfless shape-shifting paperclip who would appear out of nowhere to help you in any way it could. And how did you treat...
Platform detection in your NW.js app
Adam Lynch
NW.js: The App and Shortcut APIs
Adam Lynch
The NW.js GUI library provides an "App" API, which contains a variety of methods and properties, some of which are essential to pretty much any app, and some have more obscure use cases. You can access the API as follows...
Installing your NW.js app on Windows
Adam Lynch
NW.js is great for creating desktop applications using Web app technologies. If you're not familiar with NW.js, I'd advise you to read an introductory article like Creating Your First Desktop App With HTML, JS and Node-WebKit to get a good base first. This is a slightly more advanced article...
npm and distribution path length problems
Adam Lynch
You might have been unfortunate enough to learn that Windows has a 256 character limit on file paths. You could've ran into this problem locally or on end users' machines. There's no real workaround but there are preventive measures you can take. Even if you haven't, feel free to take pleasure...
Building Your App: Creating Executables for NW.js
Adam Lynch
How hard can it be to package up your NW.js app into real executables? To be a true desktop app, it should be a self-contained `.exe`, `.app`, or similar. There are a few ways to approach this. Let's start with the simplest approach with the least amount of code or configuration.
Dealing with long paths
Adam Lynch
You might have been unfortunate enough to learn that Windows has a 256-character limit on file paths. You could’ve run into this problem locally or on end users’ machines. We’ve created a simple little module called gulp-path-length to…
A peek under the hood of Teamwork Chat
Adam Lynch
The idea was to build a chat application of our own. A whole new standalone product to raise the bar for team communication and collaboration. From the beginning, Teamwork Chat was intended to tie our whole suite of…