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nwjs
nw.js
JavaScript2012–2022
nwjs / nw.js

nw.js

Call all Node.js modules directly from DOM/WebWorker and enable a new way of writing applications with all Web technologies.

82Distinct people
92Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
41.1KGitHub stars
REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

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What it is

Call all Node.js modules directly from DOM/WebWorker and enable a new way of writing applications with all Web technologies.

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

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Also in these discussions

Mentioned in the same Hacker News threads. That is not proof they are substitutes.

This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 10:02:05 AM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by year92 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2012-05-12 13:46:26 UTC to 2022-06-09 09:54:49 UTC.

01020302012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 8 mentions; 1 submissions, 7 comments20122013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 28 mentions; 2 submissions, 26 comments2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 33 mentions; 5 submissions, 28 comments2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 13 mentions; 3 submissions, 10 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments20172018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2022

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20122012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC817
20132013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC28226
20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC33528
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC13310
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC404
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202

What Hacker News says

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I am curious about the possibility of this leading to source code protection in Electron. The Electron team declined to support source code protection, judging it too difficult to implement. [0] NW.js supports the feature but with severe limitations that the Electron team understandably did not want to replicate. [1] Roger Wang of NW.js fame recently tweeted that the NW.js implementation is about to get a whole lot better due to this new compiler landing in V8. [2] Could this new development in V8 put source code protection back on the table for Electron? I posted this question to the official Electron discussion forums too a few days back, but I'd be curious to hear more input on the topic, thus posting it here as well. [3] [0]: https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/3041 [1]: https://github.com/nwjs/nw.js/wiki/protect-javascript-so
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