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JavaScript

by Rheinwerk Publishing, Inc, Philip Ackermann
September 2024
Beginner to intermediate
985 pages
35h 37m
English
Packt Publishing
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19.3    Summary

With NW.js and Electron, it's relatively easy to create platform-independent desktop applications based on HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

You should remember the following points from this chapter:

  • NW.js and Electron work similarly in principle, combining WebKit and Node.js.

  • Both frameworks allow you to use the DOM API and the various APIs of Node.js.

  • An HTML file is the entry point for NW.js; for Electron it’s a JavaScript file.

  • While in NW.js, Node.js and WebKit share a single JavaScript context, in Electron there are multiple contexts because there a distinction is made between the main process and renderer processes.

  • Both NW.js and Electron allow applications to be packaged for different operating systems and architectures. ...

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