seflless / shrinkray

Lightweight alternative to Electron for making macOS apps using Javascript

Shrinkray

Create desktop apps in Javascript. Lightweight alternative to Electron because of only supporting macOS (for now).

Features

• CLI for converting static website into a macOS app.
• Tiny App sizes (macOS: < 100K, Windows: N/A)
• Debuggable (Right-click window, select "Inspect Element")
• Fullscreen API
• File Read/Write API
• Menu API

Installation

npm install -g shrinkray

Usage

The input path must be to a folder that has an index.html in it, everything in the folder will be copied into the generated app and accessible.

shrinkray -i <project>/html -o example.app

Example Apps

Draw.io

Source code (Click thumbnail to download app)

Regulex

Source code (Click thumbnail to download app)

Mini Paint

Source code (Click thumbnail to download app)

Contributing

1. Required Tools

   • XCode
   • Node/NPM

2. Clone the project

   git clone [e-mail]:francoislaberge/shrinkray.git
   cd shrinkray
   

3. Install Dependencies

   npm install
   

4. Build App Template

   npm run build:app
   

5. Publish to npm

   npm run publish:patch