Awesome NodeGui

Useful resources for creating apps with NodeGui

Contents

• Renderers
• Apps and Examples
• Boilerplates
• Tools and Plugins
• Documentation
• Articles
• Videos
• Podcasts
• Community
• Related

Renderers

• React NodeGui - Build performant, native and cross-platform desktop applications with native React + powerful CSS like styling.🚀
• Vue NodeGui - Vue renderer for NodeGui.

Unofficial/Community renderers

• Angular NodeGui (Unofficial) - Build performant, native and cross-platform desktop applications with Angular
• Vue NodeGui (Unofficial) - NodeGUI but with Vue

Apps

Made with NodeGui

• Discord client - A Discord desktop client powered by Node.JS and NodeGui.
• Mysterium VPN client - Decentralised VPN built on blockchain.
• Meme legend - Meme legend lets you type emojis, gifs or stickers quickly. Works on Mac, Windows and Linux.
• Emoji picker - Just click to copy your Emoji
• Spotube - A lightweight Spotify desktop-client which streams music using Youtube & fetches data using spotify-web-api

Samples and Experiments

• Official Examples repo - Sample apps illustrating usage of NodeGui APIs.
• Markdown editor in NodeGui - A Markdown editor in NodeGui under 200 lines of code.
• List of apps or packages using NodeGui - List from Github

Boilerplates

• NodeGui starter - A starter repo for NodeGui projects
• React NodeGui starter - Starter repository for react based native desktop apps using react-nodegui
• React NodeGui Neutrino preset - Neutrino preset for React NodeGui.
• NodeGUI MVC Starter - Starter repo to provide a basic structure and format to build large complex application using NodeGUI.

Tools

Tools for NodeGui

• NodeGui Packer - Create installers and distributables for NodeGui apps.
• React NodeGui Testing library - Simple React NodeGui testing utilities that encourage good testing practices 🦋 - by @fnky
• React Native like stylesheet for React NodeGui by @Solant - https://github.com/Solant/nodegui-stylesheet
• NodeGUI Debian Builder - Create .deb package distributable for NodeGUI Apps.

Plugins

Plugins that add additional native features to NodeGui apps

• nodegui-plugin-animation - A NodeGui plugin that adds native animation capabilities to NodeGui widgets and objects. Based on QAnimation.
• nodegui-plugin-example - an example native plugin
• @nodegui/os-utils - A helper module for NodeGui which contains OS specific native features.
• nodegui-plugin-title-bar - Plugin for NodeGUI to hide macOS title bar and leave only traffic lights.
• nodegui-plugin-webview - A NodeGui plugin that adds webview support.
• @nodegui/devtools - React NodeGui's devtools support module.

Documentation

• NodeGui: Getting Started
• NodeGui: Apis
• React NodeGui: Getting Started

Articles

• Sitepoint Tutorial: Build a native Meme Search Desktop app with Javascript (NodeGui) and Giphy API

• Electron alternatives: Exploring NodeGUI and React NodeGUI by Siegfried Grimbeek

• Getting Started with NodeGUI - James Hibbard

• Building Native Desktop Apps with React Node GUI - Nathan Sebhastian

• NodeGUI React Component by Component - Greg Benner

Videos

• Getting started with NodeGui and React NodeGui at KarmaJS meetup November 2019

Podcasts

• JS Party: Performant Node desktop apps with NodeGui with Atul R, Jerod Santo and Nick Nisi

Community

• Spectrum
• Medium
• @node_gui on Twitter
• Product Hunt

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