Build performant, native and cross-platform desktop applications with React.🚀

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

Visit: https://react.nodegui.org for docs.

This project is in active development. It should be okay for smaller projects but anything complex - electron is the way to go for now. 🚧

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• 🧬 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 (supports react-devtools, node debugger).
• 📚 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 😉).

• Check out react-nodegui-starter to get up and running with your own React NodeGUI app!
• Read through the docs

Community Guides

• https://blog.logrocket.com/electron-alternatives-exploring-nodegui-and-react-nodegui/ - Electron alternatives: Exploring NodeGUI and React NodeGUI by Siegfried Grimbeek.

Talks/Podcasts

JS Party 96: Performant Node desktop apps with NodeGUI – Listen on Changelog.com

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/website/docs/development

Please read: https://github.com/nodegui/.github/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md

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

React NodeGUI is an open source project and requires your support. If you like this project, please consider supporting my work with Ko-fi. Alternatively, Issues on React NodeGui can be funded by anyone via Issuehunt and the amount will be distributed to respective contributors.

• Logo: Thanks to Vishwas Shetty from the Noun Project.

https://github.com/nodegui/.github/blob/master/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md

MIT

People maintaining this project.

Atul R

Thanks goes to these wonderful people (emoji key):

Rahul Gaba 💻

Kakul Gupta 💻

Eva1ent 💻

slidinghotdog 💻

Roy Sommer 💻

Natesh M Bhat 📖

This project follows the all-contributors specification. Contributions of any kind welcome!