@saadshamim No. WebShell is not nw.js nor electron alternative, which is only a WebView container. It do NOT provide you an Node.js runtime. The motivation of WebShell is taking web app out of browser tab. I always use jsbin.com to startup a frontend demo but I was tired for managing it as a browser tab.
Electron and nw.js let you use Node.js and frontend skill to **make** a native app when WebShell let you **bring** the web app to the native. This is the point. It should be compared with Fluid, not nw.js nor Electron.
@toobulkeh This is awesome! Good to see you on PH!
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The landing page can certainly do with a better explanation for how this works and what exactly will be the output. It seems that it has limited support for device features so I'm wondering what are the pros to using this over several other "webview-packaging-shells" like the very popular cordova
I think this is very similar to http://fluidapp.com/, to the sense that it packages a given website into a OSX application. With that said, it seems pretty simple and easy to add your own app features!
Cool concept but there were several errors when I tried to archive the app after following the instructions. Since I don't have any experience with mac/swift dev I tried for a bit to understand the bug but then gave up. Good in theory but a bit difficult to set up if you're not technical - I am and still ran into issues.
I've used Fluid before and really like it. Definitely a lot simpler to set up and get started!
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