An ember-cli addon for developing Ember.js applications with NW.js (formerly node-webkit).

This addon updates your Ember app with the necessary configuration and scripts to make it run in a NW.js environment. It also provides a convenient command (ember nw) to both build the app and launch it in a NW.js window.

From the root of your Ember CLI project:

ember install:addon ember-cli-node-webkit

This will do the following:

• Install the addon NPM package (npm install --save-dev ember-cli-node-webkit)
• Run the addon blueprint (ember generate node-webkit)
  • Add the blueprint files to your project
  • Install the nw NPM package

You can execute ember build --watch then start up NW.js with a single command:

ember nw

To specify a specific target environment (e.g. development or production):

ember nw --environment=<ENV_NAME>

As the app gets rebuilt during development, the NW.js window will automatically reload the current page, so you can see the changes that you made without having to stop and restart the entire process.

This addon is configured to install NW.js from NPM and add it to your project as a local dependency.

To use a different NW.js:

• Remove the nw dependency from your project (npm uninstall --save-dev nw)
• Set an environment variable named NW_PATH that points to the desired binary. For instance, you may have downloaded the executable from the NW.js website and wish to use that instead.
• On Windows, if the location of your nw.exe has been added to your PATH, then the NW_PATH environment variable does not need to be set.

See brzpegasus#6.

To install the addon from master, run the following:

git clone [email protected]:brzpegasus/ember-cli-node-webkit.git 
cd ember-cli-node-webkit
npm link

Then, in your Ember CLI project:

• Add ember-cli-node-webkit to your package.json's dev dependencies. The version doesn't really matter. The package just needs to be listed so that Ember CLI can discover and register your addon:

{
  "devDependencies": {
    "ember-cli-node-webkit": "*"
  }
}

• Link to your local ember-cli-node-webkit and go through the addon install steps:

npm link ember-cli-node-webkit
ember g node-webkit

To run the addon's test suite:

cd ember-cli-node-webkit
npm install
npm test

This addon was created to help Ember.js developers build applications in NW.js. If you find patterns that work well for you, or would like to suggest ideas to make this addon even better, feel free to open new issues or submit pull requests. I'd love to hear your feedback!