The DevTools team did the work a while back to pull everything they needed out of process and establish the devtools protocol to enable remote debugging.
What the author has done is to take the Chrome DevTools (which is already basically a standalone web app), and package it up with Node-webkit as a standalone app.
I think this is cool, not from a technical perspective necessarily (since the engineering work was mostly already done by the DevTools team for remote debugging), but rather from a usability perspective. Slight tweak to the UX and it changes the mental framing people have of what the chrome DevTools actually is.
The DevTools team did the work a while back to pull everything they needed out of process and establish the devtools protocol to enable remote debugging.
What the author has done is to take the Chrome DevTools (which is already basically a standalone web app), and package it up with Node-webkit as a standalone app.
I think this is cool, not from a technical perspective necessarily (since the engineering work was mostly already done by the DevTools team for remote debugging), but rather from a usability perspective. Slight tweak to the UX and it changes the mental framing people have of what the chrome DevTools actually is.