Re: [nodejs] [ANN] node-chrome: a very simple module for building desktop apps

2013-02-04 Thread Nathan Rajlich
They're different projects with different goals. Diversity is good! On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 9:32 PM, mgutz wrote: > I think you're oversimplifying it. For example, in node-webkit if you can > drag and drop a file into the client area, you get the full path. You're > basically running a server in

Re: [nodejs] [ANN] node-chrome: a very simple module for building desktop apps

2013-02-04 Thread Paolo Fragomeni
simplicity is good. On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 12:32 AM, mgutz wrote: > I think you're oversimplifying it. For example, in node-webkit if you can > drag and drop a file into the client area, you get the full path. You're > basically running a server in node and running chrome with some permissive >

Re: [nodejs] [ANN] node-chrome: a very simple module for building desktop apps

2013-02-04 Thread mgutz
I think you're oversimplifying it. For example, in node-webkit if you can drag and drop a file into the client area, you get the full path. You're basically running a server in node and running chrome with some permissive flags set. On Monday, February 4, 2013 6:14:43 PM UTC-8, hij1nx wrote: >

Re: [nodejs] [ANN] node-chrome: a very simple module for building desktop apps

2013-02-04 Thread Paolo Fragomeni
The difference is several thousand lines of code -- in fact its about 30 lines of code, there's no special APIs, no configuration files, builds or hacks. On Monday, February 4, 2013, mgutz wrote: > How does this compare to node-webkit or appjs? > > On Monday, February 4, 2013 1:04:26 PM UTC-8, hi

[nodejs] [ANN] node-chrome: a very simple module for building desktop apps

2013-02-04 Thread hij1nx
*node-chrome(3)* A tiny module for building desktop apps. It's really simple and uses the chrome runtime. *Here's the module.* https://github.com/hij1nx/node-chrome/ *Here's an example.* #!/usr/bin/env node var cn = require('../lib'); var opts = { runtime: "/Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/C