Chapter 1. Introducing Electron and NW.js
This chapter covers
- Understanding why Node.js desktop apps are the rage these days
- Previewing Node.js desktop application frameworks Electron and NW.js
- Using these frameworks to build cross-platform desktop apps with Node.js
- Comparing the frameworks
- Identifying real-world applications built with Electron and NW.js
Node.js is known as a programming framework that lets developers build server-side applications in JavaScript. Since its creation in 2009, it has spawned a variety of popular web frameworks like Express and Hapi, as well as real-time web frameworks like Meteor and Sails. It has also allowed developers to create isomorphic web apps using tools like Facebook’s React, a UI library that ...
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