Awesome Desktop JS

A curated list of awesome packages and frameworks for implementing JavaScript applications on the desktop.

Contents

• GUI Frameworks
• System Tray
• Packaging

GUI Frameworks

Chrome

• Electron - a Node.js and Chromium runtime to build cross platform desktop apps
• nw.js - a Node.js and Chromium runtime to build cross platform desktop apps

Web

• Neutralino - a runtime to build desktop apps using the system's own web browser (Windows, macOS, Linux)
• Electrino - a runtime to build desktop apps using the system's own web browser (macOS only)
• Quark Shell - a runtime to build desktop apps using the system's own web browser (macOS only)
• Quark - a runtime to build desktop apps using the system's own web browser (Windows only)
• carlo - a runtime to build desktop apps using the system's installed version of Google Chrome
• graffiti - build desktop apps with react-native API, render them on GPU using Servo WebRender (Linux, macOS, and Windows)
• DeskGap - a runtime to build desktop apps using Node.js and the system's own web browser (macOS 10.10+, Windows 1809+ and Ubuntu 16.04+)
• azula - azula is a lightweight GPU accelerated HTML GUI for native JavaScript applications (Windows only, based on Ultralight)
• Ultralight - lightweight, cross-platform, pure-GPU, HTML rendering engine for desktop apps and games. (macOS Sierra or later, Windows 7+ and Ubuntu or Debian 9.5+)
• Tauri - Build desktop apps with Node.js and a system webview. For the webview, Tauri uses Cocoa/WebKit on macOS, gtk-webkit2 on Linux and MSHTML(IE10/11) or Webkit via EdgeHTML/Chakra on Windows.
• deno_webview - This project provides deno bindings for webview using the webview rust bindings. Currently supports Linux & Windows.
• Kraken - a web rendering engine, built on Flutter.

LibUI

• libui-node - Node.js native desktop GUI framework to build cross-platform (Windows, macOS, Linux) apps.
• vuido - a Vue.js environment to build cross platform native desktop apps

Qt

• Brig - a user interface toolkit based on Qt to build cross-platform apps
• Quark - create cross platform desktop apps with Node.js and QML
• NodeGUI - a library powered by Qt5 for building cross-platform native desktop applications with JavaScript and CSS
• proton-native a React.js environment to build cross platform native desktop apps

Flexbox

• Yoga - a layout engine which implements Flexbox to build cross-platform (node, browser asm, and standalone) apps
• Yue - create cross platform desktop apps with Node.js and flexbox (via yoga)

System Tray

• trayballoon - a system tray balloon on Windows
• systray2 - a system tray icon and menu (Windows, macOS, Linux)
• menubar - easily create a menubar Electron app (macOS only)
• xtray - create a native menubar app via a node.js ⇆ Swift bridge using objc runtime (macOS only)
• positron-bar - Electron bar for (Linux only)

Packaging

• nexe - a cli which compiles your Node.js app into a single executable
• pkg - a cli which compiles your Node.js app into a single executable
• node-packer - a cli which compiles your Node.js app into a single executable
• nectarjs - a cli which compiles your Node.js app into a single executable (Linux, Windows, WebAssembly, Arduino)
• lone - a cli which compiles your Node.js app into a single executable
• enclose - a cli which compiles your Node.js app into a single executable
• launchui-packager - an API which packages GUI Node.js applications (Linux, Windows, macOS)
• nbin - a cli which compiles your Node.js app into a single executable
• boxednode - a cli (and API) which compiles your Node.js file into a single executable
• caxa - a cli (and API) which compiles your Node.js app into a single executable

License

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