NodeGUI React Desktop

Build performant, native and cross-platform desktop applications with JavaScript + powerful CSS like styling.🚀

React Desktop is powered by React ⚛️ and Qt5 💚 which makes it CPU and memory efficient as compared to other chromium based solutions like electron. React Desktop is essentially a React renderer for NodeGUI.

Visit: https://nodegui.github.io/nodegui for docs.

How does it look?

More screenshots?

See 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 event available from Qt / NodeJs.
• 💸 Can be used for Commercial applications.
• 🕵️‍♂️ Good Devtools support (hot reload, live reload, debugging etc).
• 📚 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 react-desktop-starter to get up and running with your own React Desktop app!
• Read through the docs

Docs for contributing

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 link:

https://github.com/nodegui/nodegui/tree/master/docs/development

Building

npm run build [--qt_home_dir=/path/to/qt]

LICENSE

MIT