nodeguy/README.md

# NodeGUI

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Build **performant**, **native** and **cross-platform** desktop applications with **JavaScript** + powerful **CSS like styling**.🚀

NodeGUI is powered by **Qt5** 💚 which makes it CPU and memory efficient as compared to other chromium based solutions like electron.

If you are looking for **React** based version, check out: **[React NodeGUI](https://github.com/nodegui/react-nodegui)**.

Visit: https://nodegui.github.io/nodegui for docs.

<img alt="logo" src="https://github.com/nodegui/nodegui/raw/master/extras/logo/nodegui.png" height="200" />


## How does it look?

<div style="display:inline; margin: 0 auto;">
<img alt="demo_linux" src="https://github.com/nodegui/examples/raw/master/nodegui/calculator/calculator_linux.png" height="280" />
<img alt="demo_win" src="https://github.com/nodegui/examples/raw/master/nodegui/calculator/calculator_win.jpg" height="280" />
<img alt="demo_mac" src="https://github.com/nodegui/examples/raw/master/nodegui/calculator/calculator_mac.png" height="280" />
</div>

<div style="display:inline; margin: 0 auto;"><img alt="kitchen" src="https://github.com/nodegui/nodegui/raw/master/extras/assets/kitchen.png" height="280" /><img alt="demo_mac" src="https://github.com/nodegui/examples/raw/master/react-nodegui/weather-app-widget/weather_widget_mac.png" height="280" /><img alt="demo_win" src="https://github.com/nodegui/examples/raw/master/react-nodegui/image-view/image_view_win.jpg" height="280" />
</div>

**More screenshots?**

### More Examples:

https://github.com/nodegui/examples

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## Features

- 🧬 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 events available from Qt / NodeJs.
- 💸 Can be used for Commercial applications.
- 🕵️‍♂️ Good Devtools support.
- 📚 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 😉).

## Current focus:

- [ ] (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.

## Getting Started

- Check out [nodegui-starter](https://github.com/nodegui/nodegui-starter) to get up and running with your own React NodeGUI app!
- Read through the [docs](https://nodegui.github.io/nodegui).

## Docs for contributing

 ``` 
 It is easier than you think, try it 
 ```

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](https://github.com/nodegui/nodegui/tree/master/docs/development).

## Building

`npm run build [--qt_home_dir=/path/to/qt]`

## Funding

NodeGUI is an open source project and requires your support. If you like this project, please consider supporting my work with Ko-fi. Alternatively, Issues on NodeGui can be funded by anyone via Issuehunt and the amount will be distributed to respective contributors.

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### LICENSE

MIT


## Maintainers ✨

People maintaining this project.

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## Contributors ✨

Thanks goes to these wonderful people ([emoji key](https://allcontributors.org/docs/en/emoji-key)):

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    <td align="center"><a href="https://lramage.gitlab.io"><img src="https://avatars1.githubusercontent.com/u/43783393?v=4" width="100px;" alt="Lucas Ramage"/><br /><sub><b>Lucas Ramage</b></sub></a><br /><a href="https://github.com/nodegui/nodegui/commits?author=oxr463" title="Documentation">📖</a></td>
    <td align="center"><a href="https://github.com/gamtiq"><img src="https://avatars3.githubusercontent.com/u/1177323?v=4" width="100px;" alt="Denis Sikuler"/><br /><sub><b>Denis Sikuler</b></sub></a><br /><a href="https://github.com/nodegui/nodegui/commits?author=gamtiq" title="Documentation">📖</a></td>
    <td align="center"><a href="https://twitter.com/nahueljo"><img src="https://avatars1.githubusercontent.com/u/1612488?v=4" width="100px;" alt="Nahuel José"/><br /><sub><b>Nahuel José</b></sub></a><br /><a href="#question-Naahuel" title="Answering Questions">💬</a></td>
    <td align="center"><a href="https://github.com/kakulgupta"><img src="https://avatars3.githubusercontent.com/u/10727047?v=4" width="100px;" alt="Kakul Gupta"/><br /><sub><b>Kakul Gupta</b></sub></a><br /><a href="https://github.com/nodegui/nodegui/commits?author=kakulgupta" title="Code">💻</a></td>
    <td align="center"><a href="http://rahulgaba.com"><img src="https://avatars3.githubusercontent.com/u/7898942?v=4" width="100px;" alt="Rahul Gaba"/><br /><sub><b>Rahul Gaba</b></sub></a><br /><a href="https://github.com/nodegui/nodegui/commits?author=rgabs" title="Code">💻</a></td>
    <td align="center"><a href="http://uriziel.pl"><img src="https://avatars1.githubusercontent.com/u/568207?v=4" width="100px;" alt="Paweł Borecki"/><br /><sub><b>Paweł Borecki</b></sub></a><br /><a href="https://github.com/nodegui/nodegui/commits?author=Uriziel01" title="Code">💻</a></td>
    <td align="center"><a href="http://marcus-sa.me"><img src="https://avatars0.githubusercontent.com/u/8391194?v=4" width="100px;" alt="Marcus S. Abildskov"/><br /><sub><b>Marcus S. Abildskov</b></sub></a><br /><a href="https://github.com/nodegui/nodegui/commits?author=marcus-sa" title="Tests">⚠️</a></td>
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    <td align="center"><a href="http://www.mad3linux.org"><img src="https://avatars3.githubusercontent.com/u/508624?v=4" width="100px;" alt="Átila Camurça Alves"/><br /><sub><b>Átila Camurça Alves</b></sub></a><br /><a href="https://github.com/nodegui/nodegui/commits?author=atilacamurca" title="Documentation">📖</a></td>
    <td align="center"><a href="http://hibbard.eu"><img src="https://avatars2.githubusercontent.com/u/1940994?v=4" width="100px;" alt="James Hibbard"/><br /><sub><b>James Hibbard</b></sub></a><br /><a href="https://github.com/nodegui/nodegui/commits?author=jameshibbard" title="Code">💻</a></td>
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