Don't underestimate the value of HTML and dom based guis. Your front-end is written in the same language as your backend and debugging is often much easier. You just need to get some good front-end devs who know how to make it pretty.
I too want native apps in node that work cross-platform. node-webkit has promise, but it's a long ways off. GTK is a mess and I don't think any of the bindings are complete or up to date. One easy solution is to just use chrome with the -app flag or mozilla's chromeless for the gui. Sure it's a browser, but it looks more native. On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 6:27 AM, Jann Horn <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > I'm thinking about how to design some apllication, and I really want > to write as much code as possible in node. However, a nice user > interface is very important for it, too. Also, it needs to be runnable > on all major operating systems. I'm thinking about whether it's going > to be feasible to do the GUI stuff (a bunch of windows, I need to be > able to spawn new windows, it'd be nice to have a notification bar > icon, ...) in node. If not, I might use Java for that and do a > connection over localhost, but I really want to avoid that. So, what > can I use? > > - node-webkit looks nice, but I think it might be slow and is ugly > because it uses DOM. Also, it currently requires me to manually patch > webkit code for installing and I think it doesn't run on Windows yet > - there's a bunch of attempts to do GTK bindings, but most of them > seem to be pretty old and unmaintained - however, node-gui looks > promising to me, and according to the README, it also works on Windows > > What's your opinion? Anything important I didn't consider? Are there > any bigger examples of GUI code written in node I could look at? > > Jann > > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
