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https://github.com/neutralinojs/neutralinojs

Portable and lightweight cross-platform desktop application development framework
https://github.com/neutralinojs/neutralinojs

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Portable and lightweight cross-platform desktop application development framework

Host: GitHub
URL: https://github.com/neutralinojs/neutralinojs
Owner: neutralinojs
License: other
Created: 2018-06-23T03:30:41.000Z (about 6 years ago)
Default Branch: main
Last Pushed: 2024-04-13T00:35:42.000Z (5 months ago)
Last Synced: 2024-04-14T00:26:57.124Z (5 months ago)
Topics: c-plus-plus, cross-platform, css, framework, hacktoberfest, html, http-server, javascript, json, native-development, neutralinojs
Language: C++
Homepage: https://neutralino.js.org
Size: 103 MB
Stars: 7,231
Watchers: 76
Forks: 354
Open Issues: 165
Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- Changelog: CHANGELOG.md
- Contributing: CONTRIBUTING.md
- Funding: .github/FUNDING.yml
- License: LICENSE
- Code of conduct: CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
- Security: SECURITY.md

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Neutralinojs is a lightweight and portable desktop application development framework. It lets you develop lightweight cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS. Apps built with Neutralinojs can run on Linux, macOS, Windows, Web, and Chrome. Also, 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). 

- [Neutralinojs vs. Electron, NW.JS, Tauri, NodeGui, Flutter, .Net MAUI, Wails](https://github.com/Elanis/web-to-desktop-framework-comparison)

- [Neutralinojs vs. Electron vs. NW.js (2018)](https://github.com/neutralinojs/evaluation)

- [Roadmap 2024](https://codezri.org/blog/neutralinojs-2024-roadmap/)

- [Release notes](https://neutralino.js.org/docs/release-notes/framework)

Get started with the neu CLI:

```bash

 # Creating a new app

 npm i -g @neutralinojs/neu

 neu create hello-world

 cd hello-world

 neu run

 

 # Building your app (No compilation - takes less than a second)

 neu build

```

You can use your favorite frontend frameworks:

```bash

# Creating a new React-based app

neu create hello-react -t codezri/neutralinojs-react

```

Start building apps: [neutralino.js.org/docs](https://neutralino.js.org/docs)

 

## Why Neutralinojs? 

In Electron and NWjs, you have to install NodeJs and hundreds of dependency libraries. Embedded Chromium and Node make simple apps bloaty. 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 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](https://github.com/neutralinojs/neutralino.js) for developers.

Ask questions on StackOverflow using tag [neutralinojs](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/neutralinojs)

## Contributing

Please check the [contribution guide](https://neutralino.js.org/docs/contributing/framework-developer-guide). We use GitHub Discussions and Discord for quick discussions. 

  * [Join on Discord](https://discord.gg/cybpp4guTJ)

  * [Start a thread on Discussions](https://github.com/neutralinojs/neutralinojs/discussions)

Neutralinojs contributors:



  



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## Subprojects

- Builds are powered by [BuildZri](https://codezri.org/docs/buildzri/intro)

- Releases are powered by [ReleaseZri](https://codezri.org/docs/releasezri/intro)

## Sponsors and Donators

Organizations and individuals support Neutralinojs development. See: https://codezri.org/sponsors

If you like to support our work, you can donate to Neutralinojs via [Patreon](https://www.patreon.com/shalithasuranga) or [GitHub Sponsors](https://github.com/sponsors/shalithasuranga).

[![Become a Patreon](https://c5.patreon.com/external/logo/become_a_patron_button.png)](https://www.patreon.com/shalithasuranga)

## Licenses and Copyrights

- Neutralinojs core: MIT. Copyright (c) 2021 Neutralinojs and contributors.

- C++ websocket client/server library: BSD-3-Clause from [zaphoyd/websocketpp](https://github.com/zaphoyd/websocketpp). Copyright (c) 2014, Peter Thorson. All rights reserved.

- JSON parser library: MIT from [nlohmann/json](https://github.com/nlohmann/json). Copyright (c) 2013-2022 Niels Lohmann.

- Cross-platform webview library: MIT from [webview/webview](https://github.com/webview/webview). Copyright (c) 2017 Serge Zaitsev. 

- Cross-platform tray library: MIT from [zserge/tray](https://github.com/zserge/tray). Copyright (c) 2017 Serge Zaitsev. 

- Cross-platform GUI dialogs library: WTFPL from [samhocevar/portable-file-dialogs](https://github.com/samhocevar/portable-file-dialogs). Copyright (c) 2018—2020 Sam Hocevar

- Base64 encoder/decoder library: MIT from [tobiaslocker/base64](https://github.com/tobiaslocker/base64). Copyright (c) 2019 Tobias Locker.

- Cross-platform known platform directories API: MIT from [sago007/PlatformFolders](https://github.com/sago007/PlatformFolders). Copyright (c) 2015 Poul Sander.

- C++ logging library: MIT from [amrayn/easyloggingpp](https://github.com/amrayn/easyloggingpp). Copyright (c) 2012-2018 Amrayn Web Services. Copyright (c) 2012-2018 @abumusamq

- Cross-platform process library: MIT from [eidheim/tiny-process-library](https://gitlab.com/eidheim/tiny-process-library). Copyright (c) 2015-2020 Ole Christian Eidheim.

- Asio standalone C++ library: [Boost License v1.0](https://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt) from [chriskohlhoff/asio](https://github.com/chriskohlhoff/asio). Copyright (c) 2003-2021 Christopher M. Kohlhoff

- Cross-platform C++ clipboard library: MIT from [dacap/clip](https://github.com/dacap/clip). Copyright (c) 2015-2021 David Capello

- Cross-platform C++ system information library: CC0 1.0 Universal from [ThePhD/infoware](https://github.com/ThePhD/infoware). Written in 2016-2020 by nabijaczleweli and ThePhD

- Cross-platform C++ filesystem watcher library: MIT from [SpartanJ/efsw](https://github.com/SpartanJ/efsw). Copyright (c) 2020 Martín Lucas Golini

- Logo design credits: [IconsPng](https://www.iconspng.com/image/2688/atom-orange). Copyright free as mentioned in their website. 

[See the complete license file](LICENSE)

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