Node.js: Package a Client-side Web Application
Problem
I'm currently trying to find a multi-platform solution to package a HTML5 web application (no server dependencies) to a single executable app using node.js and Linux terminal (Ubuntu).
I've tried wkpdftohtml and phantomjs in order to generate a pdf, but they don't support html5 video or audio tags (although modern pdfs do support these).
Are there any libraries or Linux binaries that can satisfy these requirements?
Solution
If you add a node.js component that acts as a simple web server then you can package the assets + the web server with node-webkit. Contains node + Chromium.
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