generator-wean

A NW.JS (Node-Webkit) yeoman generator for Node-Webkit, Express, Angular and Mean

Yeoman generator for NW.js (Node-Webkit). WEAN is coined name for Webkit Express Angular Node just like MEAN by Arvind Ravulavaru .

Requirements

• Node
• Grunt
• Yeaoman
• Bower

Installation

To install the generator:

npm install -g generator-wean

You need to have node, grunt, yo and bower installed globally before running the command. Therefore download node from the link and run:

npm install -g yo grunt bower

Scaffold an application

Scaffolding a WEAN application works like every other Yeoman generator. If you have the generator installed, cd to an empty project directory and run:

yo wean

Interact with Yeoman to create the application.

Running

The application will scaffold completely while generating but there are chances that npm and bower installation might not be successful, probably because of unstable internet connection as npm needs to download NW.js which is > 30mb therefore the application will not run.

If such case occurs, run npm install and bower install to complete the installation.

To run the NW application:

grunt or grunt run

Building

Another amazing feature of this generator is that you can build to all mac, windows, and linux using a simple command. If you think you app is ready for consumption, run:

grunt build:{platform}

The platform placeholder can be win, mac, linux and all. Choose all to build for all the platforms. If the parameters are not specified, it builds for the current OS.

eg:

grunt build

grunt build:mac

grunt build:win

grunt build:linux

grunt build:all

How about Icons

Yeah. Icons. Icons are very easy to setup for mac and windows. Copy the .icns and .ico version of your icon named app-icon to the root of the project before building and that is all.

Contributing

I will really appreciate any contributions to this project (no matter how little). Please use the guidelines

Thanks

• Arvind Ravulavaru (Inspiration)
• elmuchaco

License

The MIT License

Copyright (c) 2014, Christian Nwamba

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.