> On 15 Feb 2015, at 13:17, Daniel Zduniak <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I'm interested in developing a solution that would allow to create desktop 
> apps with Node.js.
> 
> I believe requiring user to install whole Node.js platform would seem to be 
> too cumbersome and just unnecessary since the user wouldn't really need full 
> developer environment for his needs - he only needs to be able to run the 
> app. It would be especially undesired on mobile, where installing Node.js is 
> simply difficult or maybe even impossible...
> 
> So the solution I'm proposing would be to use special launcher with embedded 
> Node.js interpreter that would then run proper Node.js app...
> 
> Is something like this currently possible? If yes could you provide me with 
> some hints?

Desktop apps with node are already created using NW.js and atom-shell and other 
tools -- the Atom text editor is already successful doing this.

Making a shared library version of the interpreter is possible, or at least was 
recently, but may not go as far as you think.

A lot of this has been explored, to varying degrees in a lot of projects.

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