Performant Node desktop apps with NodeGui (JS Party #96)

What if you could have an Electron-like app framework without the Chromium dependency and resulting performance woes? Well, now you can. NodeGui is a Qt5-powered, cross-platform, native app GUI framework for JavaScript with CSS-like styling. In this episode, Jerod and Nick sit down with Atul –author of NodeGUI and NodeGUI React– to learn about this exciting framework. We ask him a zillion and one questions about it.

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Featuring:

• Atul R – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Bluesky, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

• Wear your helmet while biking, friends
• Announcing NodeGUI
• NodeGui on GitHub
• NodeGui-React on GitHub
• Stop limiting your open source library’s potential

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!