NW.JS (node-webkit) – An Introduction

Node webkit allows HTML5 applications to run in a desktop. It uses NodeJS and Chromium. Both are using the same V8 javscript engine. Since this runs as a desktop application, it doesn’t have the sandbox restrictions. So in the same page, you can open a file from file-system and then render the contents in the web browser.

NW.JS allows calling node js modules directly from DOM.

In this example, we would create a sample application which would...