On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 11:16 PM, Tim Caswell <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't know it this was mentioned before, but could you summarize how > this project differs in goals and maturity to other similar projects > like appjs? > > I'm not trying to discourage you, this work is fantastic! I just know > that it's not obvious to everyone what the differences are.
You're right, a compare table is necessary, I'll add one in the Wiki page. In summary, node-webkit is different to appjs in following ways: 1. appjs is a module for node but node-webkit is a standalone runtime. 2. it's hard to distribute app written with appjs, but node-webkit has a working out of box package system. 3. the webview created by appjs is just a normal webview, it's very hard to use along with nodejs. But webview created by node-webkit has integrated nodejs into it, that means you can directly use 'require', 'process' and others in the <script> tag of a html page. 4. write apps with node-webkit is as simple as write a web page, and even simpler because you can use all nodejs stuff including its third party modules. And see our file explorer demo on: https://github.com/zcbenz/nw-file-explorer then you'll know how powerful node-webkit is. -- Cheng Intel Open Source Technology Center -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
