Welcome to this NW.js tutorial! 😃

Today we will be shipping out an example application developed on Mac 🍎 OSX to a Win64 OS. 💻

Please note: this tutorial is based on an instructional lecture originally presented by Rick Patci.
Feel free to use this guide to walk through these steps at your leisure.

Your node environment:

• Please ensure you are using a version of node compatible with the latest NW.js build (at the time of
  this initial documentation, node-v6.1.0).
• If you have nvm, nodenv, etc. you may also add that particular node version.

Converting this app:

1. Fork and clone this repo

2. cd nwjs-tutorial

3. npm i

4. Open in editor.

5. ####The following steps will enable you to develop and test this app before bundling it up for desktop use.

6. Navigate to package.json

7. Append "start": "nw" to the scripts option.
   

8. Recommended: append some explicit window options after the scripts option. javascript "window": { "title": "Sample NW.js App", "toolbar": false, "fullscreen": false, "width": 700, "height": 400, "resizable": false },

Downloading NW.js Binaries:

1. In your browser, navigate to nwjs.io

2. We want to specifically build for Windows 64 in this example, which can be found by clicking on DOWNLOADS:

3. On the resulting page, select the NORMAL Windows 64-bit option to begin download:

4. Next, unzip the contents. The destination of the zip extracts is not crucial in this step.

5. Create a new directory (ex: mkdir sample-nw-v0.1.0) that will ultimately be the finished product folder we send off to our user. The location of this directory is not crucial, just somewhere you can remember 😉

6. Copy all of the extracted contents of the nwjs zip binaries into this new user directory.

7. Now back in our tutorial directory, we need to bundle up our app's files (index.html, styles directory, and the package.json) into a package.nw file. zip -r package.nw index.html styles package.json within the directory containing these files.

8. mv package.nw ../your-path/to/the/user/dir. The user's directory should now contain our nw.js binaries and the resulting package.nw archive.

9. Rename the nw.exe file to an app name of your choosing! ex: our-cool-example-app.exe

10. We are now ready to bundle this up officially! You may use the zip -r command for recursive directory zip, or, to encrypt with apassword you can pass an extra flag zip -er. Once these are bundled up, we are ready to send away! The end-user unzips, and runs the executable 😄