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Roger Wang  
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 More options Aug 12 2012, 12:48 am
From: Roger Wang <roger.w...@linux.intel.com>
Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2012 21:48:06 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Sun, Aug 12 2012 12:48 am
Subject: Re: [nodejs] Re: [ANN] New release of node-webkit - run node.js apps on desktop
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I don't think the 2 projects are the same. In AppJS there is a bridge
marshalling the function calls (correct me if I'm wrong) between the
processes[1], while in node-webkit, WebKit and NodeJS resides in the same
process thus any function call is made directly.

[1] https://github.com/appjs/appjs/blob/master/lib/bridge.js

Roger

On Friday, August 10, 2012 5:18:30 PM UTC+8, Dan Milon wrote:

> since the latest version of appjs there is a shared context between
> node/webkit so you can use node calls inside the "client side" code.
> Example here https://gist.github.com/3312818

> danmilon.

> On 08/10/2012 03:57 AM, Zhao Cheng wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 11:16 PM, Tim Caswell <t...@creationix.com<javascript:>>
> wrote:
> >> I don't know it this was mentioned before, but could you summarize how
> >> this project differs in goals and maturity to other similar projects
> >> like appjs?

> >> I'm not trying to discourage you, this work is fantastic!  I just know
> >> that it's not obvious to everyone what the differences are.
> > You're right, a compare table is necessary, I'll add one in the Wiki
> page.

> > In summary, node-webkit is different to appjs in following ways:
> > 1. appjs is a module for node but node-webkit is a standalone runtime.
> > 2. it's hard to distribute app written with appjs, but node-webkit has
> > a working out of box package system.
> > 3. the webview created by appjs is just a normal webview, it's very
> > hard to use along with nodejs. But webview created by node-webkit has
> > integrated nodejs into it, that means you can directly use 'require',
> > 'process' and others in the <script> tag of a html page.
> > 4. write apps with node-webkit is as simple as write a web page, and
> > even simpler because you can use all nodejs stuff including its third
> > party modules.

> > And see our file explorer demo on:
> > https://github.com/zcbenz/nw-file-explorer

> > then you'll know how powerful node-webkit is.


 
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