First feedback after my first-day of node-webkit

[fdecam...@kapit.fr]

Hello, after developing a little with node-webkit i thought that some of my feedback could help (even a little) :

First the good:

- You're (in my opinion) the best around there, Adobe Air js development is horrible (no debugging tools at all), Titanium Desktop seems being abandoned, AppJS seems an amateurish effort, and i did not found any other serious solution.

- node-webkit is pretty simple to install/use and just after some minutes you're developping, which is prety great.

- taking advantage of the amazing large node-api was a smart move

Then the Bad :

- API is limited atm, however i can live with that 

- Packaging into native application feels full of "hand made" step that should be automatized, if one day i choose to make an application for production, i won't choose node-webkit if i can't integrate the packaging in my build process

Finally if there is a single point where i would like node-webkit evolution, it's in debugging tools.

The debugger settings and breakpoint are not saved between 2 sessions (pretty boring), no source map (and i develop in TypeScript) and we should be able to have debugger open from se startup since we often need to catch breakpoint or want to see resource loading

However i enjoy working with your project, so keep up the good work and thanks for sharing  it

François de Campredon

[Roger]

Thanks for the valuable feedback. We will keep improving it and deliver better experience for developers.

Roger

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From: fdecam...@kapit.fr
Sent: Fri Oct 19 08:34:45 格林尼治标准时间+0800 2012
To: node-...@googlegroups.com
Subject: [node-webkit] First feedback after my first-day of node-webkit

[Zhao Cheng]

Hi, thanks for your feedback, glad to hear that node-webkit is the
best one for you.

For the source map and starting devtools on startup, there're already
two issues for them:
https://github.com/rogerwang/node-webkit/issues/95
https://github.com/rogerwang/node-webkit/issues/76

And I've create two TODOs for automatic packaging and saving debugger session:
https://github.com/rogerwang/node-webkit/issues/99
https://github.com/rogerwang/node-webkit/issues/98

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Cheng
Intel Open Source Technology Center

[fdecam...@kapit.fr]

Great to see that you already scheduled bugfix :p.

And thanks a lot for this product which bring great possibility to web developper