irustm / angular-nodegui

Build performant, native and cross-platform desktop applications with Angular

AngularNodeGUI

Build performant, native and cross-platform desktop applications with Angular.🚀

Angular NodeGUI is powered by Angular 🅰️ and Qt5 💚 which makes it CPU and memory efficient as compared to other chromium based solutions like electron. Angular NodeGUI is essentially a Angular renderer for NodeGUI.

Docs

Main docs: https://docs.nodegui.org

Article(Russian): Native and cross-platform desktop applications with Angular, NodeGui

Nodegui Features

• Cross platform. Should work on major Linux flavours, Windows and MacOS.
• 📉 Low CPU and memory footprint. Current CPU stays at 0% on idle and memory usage is under 20mb for a hello world program.
• 💅 Styling with CSS (includes actual cascading). Also has full support for Flexbox layout (thanks to Yoga).
• ✅ Complete Nodejs api support (Currently runs on Node v12.x - and is easily upgradable). Hence has access to all nodejs compatible npm modules.
• 🎪 Native widget event listener support. Supports all events available from Qt / NodeJs.
• 💸 Can be used for Commercial applications.
• 🕵️‍♂️ Good Devtools support.
• 📚 Good documentation and website.
• 🧙‍♂️ Good documentation for contributors.
• Good support for dark mode (Thanks to QT).

Getting started

Requirements

• CMake 3.1 and up
• Make, GCC v7
• NodeJS 12.x and up.

Setting up on macOS, Windows, Linux

Getting started

Easy start

npm i
npm start

Demo

Start app

Link

Router

Use NodeguiRouterModule instead of RouterModule for routing. Example

NodeguiRouterModule.forRoot(appRoutes);

Widget

Link

Mac

Windows