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Thanks for putting this together! Do you have any links to scripts or examples for doing the packaging as you mention? I've been trying to keep my eye on this for a while and never seem to find anything.

I think really the holy grail for a lot of people is an app built with web utils and running on node - but having some type of packaging system to create executables that look just like any other desktop app.

I know there's various options out there but it seems like Chromium is the cleanest - Just everything I found wants you to install it as a browser "app" or plugin or whatever.




the packaging just works, just type `npm run deploy`. It uses https://github.com/mllrsohn/grunt-node-webkit-builder behind the scenes.

You'll get a native executable for Windows, OSX and Linux32/64, ready to ship and double-click-able. Isn't this what you want? :)


ah that's fantastic - I mis-read and thought that was how you launch the app, rather than package it. thanks!




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