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

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 😉).

Current focus:

(Partial support is present) Easily exstensible for creating custom native widgets (like react native).
(Partial) Should have a decent list of stylable native widgets.
Easy build and packaging process.

Getting Started

Check out nodegui-starter to get up and running with your own React NodeGUI app!
Read through the docs.

Community guides

https://hibbard.eu/node-gui/ - Excellent guide from James Hibbard.

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} 💻