Show HN: Starter project for creating Desktop apps with Atom Shell

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I played with Atom shell over the summer (i.e., I installed it and launched a sample app). It seems pretty cool.

It seems like atom shell is a great way to take a nodejs backend + js frontend web app and package it into a single desktop executable.

Can anyone more experienced with cross platform development comment on the pros/cons of using atom shell? What are some good alternatives? Qt + Qtscript? Or Qt + JS Bindings? I'd like to see a discussion on the options for apps like these.

I've been looking into this too. There is the Chromium Embedded Framework (on which atom-shell is based, and brackets-shell too for that matter), and a few others.

https://code.google.com/p/chromiumembedded/

Huh, apparently CEF is used in: Spotify, Evernote, Rdio, Github for Windows, Google Web Designer, and Macaw. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromium_Embedded_Framework#App...

This article is a bit outdated but gives some hints on where to search next: http://clintberry.com/2013/html5-apps-desktop-2013/

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