Desktop Application

[maxime.jul...@gmail.com]

Is there a way to use Polymer to create a cross-platform desktop application online and offline.

like Adobe Air, AppJS, Sencha Desktop, etc

i have try Adobe Air but the Browser seem to not support it.

[Rob Dodson]

Maybe a chrome app or using node-webkit ?

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[Erik Arvidsson]

Or Atom Shell, https://github.com/atom/atom-shell

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I tried to get polymer working in nodewebkit, but somehow it does not work. I installed polymer with bower like the site polymer.org describes, then i tried to start it with nodewebkit ( renamed the bower.json to package.json and created an 'app/index.html')

Op woensdag 13 augustus 2014 20:43:14 UTC+2 schreef Rob Dodson:

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Node-Webkit is a desktop runtime for Windows, Mac and Linux.  The newest release -- NW 0.11.X  "includes" (or, "is based on") Chromium 38, which means that NW apps are fully Web Component compliant with no polyfills - including no need for webcomponents.js.  There is no need to "install Polymer with Bower."  Simply include

<link rel="import" href="http://www.polymer-project.org/components/polymer/polymer.html">

in your app's head and you are good to go -- just pull in any Polymer components you want to use, or create your own.

Node-webkit is an open source equivalent of Adobe Air, Sencha, TideKit, etc.  It may suit your use-case, but be aware that it is a full runtime environment. It includes a complete node.js environment and a complete V8 javascript interpreter (a "browser in a box").  Even the smallest NW Desktop App will produce a ~50 MB stand-alone executable file, (or require the user to have Node-webkit installed).

It is a fantastic (and largely overlooked) Open Source project.

Jonathan Dodd (   Windows Desktop App Creation with node-webkit )