irustm / nodegui

A library for building cross-platform native desktop applications with Node.js and CSS 🚀. For React NodeGUI, visit: https://github.com/nodegui/react-nodegui ⚛️

NodeGui

Build performant, native and cross-platform desktop applications with Node.js and CSS like styling.🚀

NodeGUI is powered by Qt5 💚 which makes it CPU and memory efficient as compared to other chromium based solutions like electron.

If you are looking for React based version, check out: React NodeGUI.

Visit: https://nodegui.github.io/nodegui for docs.

This project is in active development. It should be okay for smaller projects but anything complex - electron is the way to go for now. 🚧

How does it look?

More screenshots?

More Examples:

https://github.com/nodegui/examples

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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).
• 🏅First class Typescript support. (Works on regular JS projects too 😉).

Getting Started

• Check out nodegui-starter to get up and running with your own React NodeGUI app!
• Read through the docs.
• Checkout the examples: https://github.com/nodegui/examples .

Community guides

• https://blog.logrocket.com/electron-alternatives-exploring-nodegui-and-react-nodegui/ - Electron alternatives: Exploring NodeGUI and React NodeGUI by Siegfried Grimbeek.
• https://hibbard.eu/node-gui/ - Excellent guide from James Hibbard.

Talks/Podcasts

• NodeGui and React NodeGui at KarmaJS Nov 2019 meetup: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jH5gaEEDv4

• JS Party 96: Performant Node desktop apps with NodeGUI – Listen on Changelog.com

Docs for contributing

It is easier than you think, try it 

Looking to contribute? If you wish to implement a new widget/add more features and need help understanding the codebase, you can start here: Contributing developer docs.

Please read https://github.com/nodegui/.github/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md

Building

npm run build [--qt_home_dir=/path/to/qt]

Funding

NodeGUI is an open source project and requires your support. If you like this project, please consider supporting my work by clicking on the Sponsor button on this Github repository or via Ko-Fi. Alternatively, Issues on NodeGui can be funded by anyone via Issuehunt and the amount will be distributed to respective contributors.

   

Special Thanks

• Logo: Thanks to Vishwas Shetty from the Noun Project.

Code of Conduct

https://github.com/nodegui/.github/blob/master/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md

License

MIT

Backers 🚀

Thanks goes to these wonderful people.

Yuriy Yazlovytskyy

John Susek

Marc Dijoux

Maintainers ✨

People maintaining this project.

Atul R

Dimitar Nestorov

Contributors ✨

Thanks goes to these wonderful people (emoji key):

Lucas Ramage 📖	Denis Sikuler 📖	Nahuel José 💬	Kakul Gupta 💻	Rahul Gaba 💻	Paweł Borecki 💻	Marcus S. Abildskov ⚠️
Átila Camurça Alves 📖	James Hibbard 💻	Soonwoo Hong 💻	Roy Sommer 💻	Paulo Coghi 🤔	Balthild Ires 💻	Dimitar Nestorov 💻
Mikko Sairio 💻	Pepijn 💻	slidinghotdog 💻	Bundyo (Kamen Bundev) 💻	feng8848 💻	Maksim Karelov 💻

This project follows the all-contributors specification. Contributions of any kind welcome!