A library for building cross-platform native desktop applications with Node.js and CSS 🚀. For React NodeGui, visit: https://github.com/nodegui/react-nodegui ⚛️

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 🤔

This project follows the all-contributors specification. Contributions of any kind welcome!