NodeGUI

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.

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

This project is in active development. It should be okay for smaller projects but anything complex - electron is the way to go for now. 🚧

How does it look?

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 😉).

Getting Started

• Check out nodegui-starter to get up and running with your own React NodeGUI app!
• Read through the docs.
• Checkout the examples: https://github.com/nodegui/examples .

Community guides

• https://blog.logrocket.com/electron-alternatives-exploring-nodegui-and-react-nodegui/ - Electron alternatives: Exploring NodeGUI and React NodeGUI by Siegfried Grimbeek.
• https://hibbard.eu/node-gui/ - Excellent guide from James Hibbard.

Talks/Podcasts

JS Party 96: Performant Node desktop apps with NodeGUI – Listen on Changelog.com

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.

Please read https://github.com/nodegui/.github/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md

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.

   

Special Thanks

• Logo: Thanks to Vishwas Shetty from the Noun Project.

Code of Conduct

https://github.com/nodegui/.github/blob/master/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md

License

MIT

Maintainers ✨

People maintaining this project.

Atul R

Contributors ✨

Thanks goes to these wonderful people (emoji key):

Lucas Ramage 📖	Denis Sikuler 📖	Nahuel José 💬	Kakul Gupta 💻	Rahul Gaba 💻	Paweł Borecki 💻	Marcus S. Abildskov ⚠️
Átila Camurça Alves 📖	James Hibbard 💻	Soonwoo Hong 💻	Roy Sommer 💻	Paulo Coghi 🤔	Balthild Ires 💻	Dimitar Nestorov 💻

This project follows the all-contributors specification. Contributions of any kind welcome!