Neutralino is a lightweight and portable application development framework. It lets you develop cross-platform applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS.

Neutralinojs vs Electron vs NW.js

Why Neutralinojs?

In Electron and NWjs you have to install NodeJs and hundreds of dependency libraries. Embedded Chromium and Node creates large overhead and makes even simple apps like “hello world” considerable in size. Neutralino offers a lightweight and portable SDK which is an alternative for Electron and NW.js also with many advantages.

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See how it works

How it works?

Contribution

Help Neutralino!

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• Fork and Clone! Awesome
• Select existing issues or create a new issue and give us a PR with your bugfix or improvement after. We love it ❤️
• Refer to this guide for Contribution Procedures and Standards.

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This experimental mode can be used to expose native functions for clients

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• Join our Google group for feature proposals and requests.
• You can help us by writing sample Neutralino apps,by composing or improving documentation or by writing code.

Developer Guide

Required tools

To create Neutralino developer environment in your pc, install these tool kits.

• MinGW Compiler for C++
• NodeJs
• Webpack Bundler
• WebKitGTK+

Build Neutralino platform in Windows

> build

Build Neutralino platform in Linux

Install GTk and webkit libraries

$ sudo apt-get install libgtk-3-dev
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webkit-team/ppa
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37 libwebkit2gtk-4.0-dev

$ bash build.sh

Neutralino platform components will be assembled in to /dist

Build Neutralino server in Windows

> cd core-windows
> build

Build Neutralino server in Linux

$ cd core-linux
$ bash build.sh

Neutralino server will be compiled in /bin

Build Neutralino.js with webpack

$ cd neutralino.js
$ npm install
$ npm run build

Development Milestones

• Solution Design
• Windows Server
• Linux Server
• Javascript SDK
• Documentation
• Web site
• Security improvements
• Experimental Release
• Stable release
• Neutralino-packager CLI
• MacOS support

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License

MIT