Introduction

node-webkit.dart is a Dart package to build node-webkit apps.

To see how the node-webkit's API looks like in Dart, check out the sample application here. Just download the dart_examples.nw archive, and open it with node-webkit.

$ nw dart_examples.nw

Features

This package provides the following libraries:

nw_gui.dart: A wrapper to the nw_gui module
path.dart: A wrapper to the path module
node_filesystem.dart: A wrapper to the fs module
dart_filesystem.dart: A complement to the node-filesystem library, wich provides the FileSystemEntity, File, Directory and Link classes, so you can access the filesystem just as you would do with dart:io
os.dart: A wrapper to the OS module
nodejs_module_wrapper.dart: A helper library for wrapping nodejs's modules

Quick Start

Create a Dart package (you can follow the instructions here)
Add node-webkit.dart as a dependency in pubspec.yaml file

name: my_app
 dependencies:
   node_webkit: any

Update dependencies:

$ pub get

Create a package.json file in web folder

{
  "name": "nw-demo",
  "main": "index.html"
}

Create a index.html file in web folder

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <title>node-webkit.dart example</title>
  </head>
  
  <body>
    <script type="application/dart" src="index.dart"></script>
    <script src="packages/node_webkit/node_webkit.js"></script>
    <script src="packages/browser/dart.js"></script>

    <p id="msg"></p>
  </body>
</html>

And finally, create a index.dart file in web folder

import 'dart:html';
import 'package:node_webkit/nw_gui.dart' as gui;

main() {
  querySelector("#msg").text = "Hello, ${getUsername()}!";
}

String getUsername() {
  return gui.App.argv.length > 0 ? gui.App.argv[0] : "Unknown";
}

You can compile your app with dart2js

$ dart2js -o web/index.dart.js web/index.dart
$ nw web/ User

Driky/node-webkit.dart

Introduction

Features

Quick Start