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Neutralinojs

Build lightweight cross-platform desktop apps with JavaScript, HTML,
and CSS

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Build once with JavaScript

Run on Linux, Windows, macOS, Web, and Chrome Browser.

Neutralinojs is a lightweight and portable desktop application
development framework. It lets you develop lightweight cross-platform
desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS. You can extend
Neutralinojs with any programming language (via extensions IPC) and
use Neutralinojs as a part of any source file (via child processes
IPC).

In Electron and NWjs, you have to install Node.js and hundreds of
dependency libraries. Embedded Chromium and Node.js make simple apps
bloaty -- in most scenarios, framework weights more than your app
source. Neutralinojs offers a lightweight and portable SDK which is
an alternative for Electron and NW.js. Neutralinojs doesn't bundle
Chromium and uses the existing web browser library in the operating
system (Eg: gtk-webkit2 on Linux). Neutralinojs implements a secure
WebSocket connection for native operations and embeds a static web
server to serve the web content. Also, it offers a built-in
JavaScript client library for developers.

If you can build a website, you can build cross-platform desktop apps
too because Neutralinojs is a framework for creating native desktop
applications with web technologies like JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.
You can indeed use your favorite frontend framework (Angular, React,
Svelte, Vue, etc.) for building your next Neutralinojs app.


  * Learn how to use your favorite frontend library.
  * Learn how to use your favorite backend language.

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Native API

Native API

Neutralinojs Javascript API exposes access to the operating system
level functions such as file manipulation, executing commands,
showing native dialog boxes, etc.

Portable & Zero Dependency

Portable & Zero Dependency

No extra dependencies are required to run Neutralinojs apps. The
great advantage is that you can make applications for all platforms
on one platform. No compilers are required!

Cross-Platform Support

Cross-Platform Support

Neutralinojs apps will work on Linux, Windows, macOS, Web, and
Chrome. Single portable application can be released for all popular
operating systems and web browsers.

Lightweight & Fast

Lightweight & Fast

A simple uncompressed Neutralinojs app is only ~2MB, and a compressed
app size is ~0.5MB. Indeed, it will not consume either physical
memory or storage like any other Chromium-based cross-platform
application development framework.

Simple & Flexible

Simple & Flexible

Neutralinojs team always tend to offer simple and flexible
development interfaces for programmers. The framework has simple
portable auto-updater and CLI. We don't use OOP-based classes
everywhere and time-consuming setups to complicate your work.

Any Backend, Any Frontend

Any Backend, Any Frontend

You can build Neutralinojs apps with any frontend framework with your
favorite features like HMR. Also, you can use Neutralinojs as a part
of any source file with the child process IPC or extend Neutralinojs
API with any backend language with the extensions IPC.

Start building lightweight apps!

npm install -g @neutralinojs/neu

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