Running a NodeJS server alongside your NodeJS desktop app
The node-webkit project added a new feature yesterday, one which I requested. So I feel I should put up a quick post about it and why I think it could be useful.
The node-webkit project added a new feature yesterday, one which I requested. So I feel I should put up a quick post about it and why I think it could be useful.
I have been working on a more complete demo of creating a desktop app with NodeJS.
This one will use a full UI (KendoUI) and a Sqlite database to create a basic CRUD style app based on the Northwind dataset. Someone really needs to put together another (and actually well designed) standard database that people can use for apps like this.
Last week an interesting thread was started on the NodeJS mailing list.
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/nodejs/iy7Re33dwyU/yxwLlx1aUNMJ
Roger Wang from the Intel Open Source Technology Center posted about a new project from their team called node-webkit.
https://github.com/rogerwang/node-webkit
node-webkit brings WebKit to NodeJS. With it, client side applications can be written with a HTML/CSS UI on the NodeJS platform. We believe the async I/O framework and Javascript language is a perfect combination for client (mobile) side applications.