Build performant, native and cross-platform desktop applications with JavaScript + powerful CSS like styling.🚀
React NodeGUI is powered by React ⚛️ and Qt5 💚 which makes it CPU and memory efficient as compared to other chromium based solutions like electron. React NodeGUI is essentially a React renderer for NodeGUI.
Visit: https://nodegui.github.io/nodegui for docs.
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- 🧬 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 event available from Qt / NodeJs.
- 💸 Can be used for Commercial applications.
- 🕵️♂️ Good Devtools support (hot reload, live reload, debugging etc).
- 📚 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 😉).
- (Partial support is present) Easily exstensible for creating custom native widgets (like react native).
- (Partial) Should have a decent list of stylable native widgets.
- Easy build and packaging process.
- Check out react-nodegui-starter to get up and running with your own React NodeGUI app!
- Read through the docs
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 link:
https://github.com/nodegui/nodegui/tree/master/docs/development
npm run build [--qt_home_dir=/path/to/qt]
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