First, sorry for my poor English. I want to call .exe app in order to run a javascript in UWP, and I'm using FullTrustProcessLauncher. The extension I set is as below.
<Extensions>
<desktop:Extension Category="windows.fullTrustProcess" Executable="nodejs/node.exe">
<desktop:FullTrustProcess>
<desktop:ParameterGroup GroupId="SyncGroup" Parameters="/new1.js"/>
<desktop:ParameterGroup GroupId="OtherGroup" Parameters="/Other"/>
</desktop:FullTrustProcess>
</desktop:Extension>
</Extensions>
However, when I run the UWP app, the node.exe just appear for a second and immediately crashed. However when I call other applications like notepad++.exe, it will be open successfully. I'm wondering why this happened. Should I use FullTrustProcessLauncher or some other way to call nodejs(node.exe)? Looking forward to your help. Thanks.
I have know the problem. With the FullTrustProcoessLauncher you can only launch an EXE that is in your package, not an arbitrary process on the system. I made another win32 process in my package and call nodejs in the win32 process. The problem is sovled now.
The EXE needs to be included in the appx package
Then you should declare in the appx.manifest.
Make sure you declear the 'runFullTrust' capability in the appxmanifest.
You should have look the FullTrustProcessLauncher ms docs.
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As the title says, I would like to run a JS file from within my application. I dont want to create a node.exe process. Is there any sample example to start with?
Edit:
I plan to use standalone dll that comes with electron installer - https://www.npmjs.com/package/electron-installer-windows
or build it myself using electron instructions
If you just need run JavaScript in a Windows app, you can use ActiveScript instead.
Otherwise this doesn't seem like a programming question.
As well as a UI, I'd like users to have the option of passing in command line options to my tool and for it to output the response to the command line (eg manually or in cron).
Even without creating a window, the UI gets going (eg taskbar on the mac), and on a linux back-end server with no UI libraries it crashes completely.
Is there a way I can avoid having to ship two apps separately, and also more annoyingly using electron to package up one exe, and something like pkg for the other?
Thanks!
You can use a bundling tool like EncloseJS to wrap your Electron application. This would allow you to write a CLI interface. You would then need to move the code that does the actual work to a shared library that both Electron and your CLI can use. You could then introduce a --headless flag that would simply not start the Electron app, while omitting the flag would start the app as usual.
I am working on node js application and it is now ready to use. I want to make exe of this application so that it can be used for commercial usage.
Up to now I have used enclose module using which I have compiled the code of application but I have found some issues in that (app got crash on idle condition). App is running good without enclose or compiled code.
I have searched on google and found some alternate modules like JXcore, Node webkit and Electron etc. but JX core giving error same as in SO question.
In node web-kit, it's functionality is not looking suitable as we need its executable and some dll's along with our code, which makes our package bulky.
I have also tried jxcore. The main problem with the exe's and with modules that we use is their ability to work with native modules, in my case the Kinect.node module. This module cannot be compiled. We need a workaround to package only this along with our .exe file. Enclose provides this workaround in its inbuilt functionality.
Also looking a response from EncloseJS, which is actually run by just one person who gives further instructions upon purchase. A purchase is needed for commercial usage.
In case of Electron, It is supporting only Electron-based application source code. So If I choose this then I have to modify my application code.
So can any one suggest me what can I do to make exe file from node js code there?
Thank you!
I had the same issue before, the node js application close when running in background. now i am using process manager2 (pm2), it is working fine and if the application is crash due to any other reason it is automatically started again.
I have gotten my answer:
First, reason was DiskDB database, it was not compatible with the node webkit so that is why I was getting error of native modules.
Now I am using sqlite3 module for local database. It is better than DiskDB.
Second, One reason was free version of enclose, Paid version of Enclose JS module ignores the timeout issue which I was getting.
This way I have resolved my question.
to gain more experience coding and support good projects, I recently got into open source projects and Github. After looking for a project I would like to work on, I found Soundnode (https://github.com/Soundnode/soundnode-app). The project uses NW.js, Node.js and Angular.js.
The question is very fundamental: How do I run the NW.js desktop app from the given files?
I was able to compile the app once, using the bash command open -n -a nwjs --args "/Users/example/path/app". But how do I compile the changes? After changing the index.html file, which is the start for the application, I have to terminate the NW.js app and start it up again (otherwise nothing will happen) and then it opens again the same, unchanged, original app (I changed some html text to see if would load the changed index.html).
Could anyone give me a quick guide how to work with this? What I want to change and everything else I will try to figure out on my own. Just need somebody to give me a head start :)
Best Regards, bbrinx - eager to learn.
nwjs application works next ways:
direct load web files from FS or web
archive files to zip package.nw
Check nwjs manual and docs: http://docs.nwjs.io/en/latest/ and https://github.com/nwjs/nw.js/wiki
Easiest way to compile your app is to use Web2Exe. It can compile for Win, Mac, Linux.
You can use browser tools for developing/debugging your application. Set toolbar option in true in window section in package.json file to see browser elements in your app.
I'd like to know if it is possible to create a dmg file which can be installed by Drag&Drop - and which starts directly after this installation without having to be called manually again.
And if this is possible, I'd like to know whether I can pass arguments to the (nodejs) process which will be started directly after the installation.
I managed to pass parameters to the process when I call it manually after the installation, but I want to run it directly.
Any help will be appreciated!
Thanks!
I solved it: Instead of creating an app and wrapping it into a dmg, I created an app and wrapped it into a pkg. For pkgs it is possible to use postinstall scripts, so I started the application through this script.