![]() ![]() ![]() This one has the downside of being difficult to search for stuff online without being reminded of your middle school chemistry. They are very clear that "The brackets-shell is only maintained for use by the Brackets project ", that screams run away to me.Ītom-shell seems to be recently active, but it seems much like brackets in that they are really writing and editor/IDE that just happens to be attached to a webkit runtime. The package management of npm is really nice, and node has well done filesystem access.īrackets-shell looked interesting, but other than a nice IDE I didn't really get what made this one as good or better than the rest. The biggest upside on node-webkit is node.js and npm. I did similar research about two months ago, and in the end I went with node-webkit. What are the objective, technical differences that matter when making a choice between them as an application developer? Debugging included development tools, compatibility with commonly used tools like node-inspector, etc.Architecture in particular the architectural differences that affect daily usage as a developer.ability to 'plug in' native code, talk to Node.js, and so on. Non-standard extra features, such as tray icons, popup notifications, and OS-rendered menu bars. ![]() Think things like "does HTML5 video work, and if yes, what codecs are available?" Language feature support, as far as HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript are concerned.Platform support operating systems, dependencies, etc.I'm hoping to turn this into a more-or-less canonical thread on the (objective) differences between the three, in particular regarding: The problem is that there does not appear to be a sufficiently complete comparison between the three in terms of feature set, compatibility, etc. The three viable options I have run across so far, are NW.js (formerly node-webkit), brackets-shell, and Electron (formerly atom-shell). Now that TideSDK is effectively dead, I've been looking into alternative 'wrappers' to run HTML/CSS/JS applications as stand-alone desktop applications. ![]()
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