node-uwp

Enables Universal Windows Platform (UWP) API access for Node.js (Chakra build) on Windows 10.

Example

var uwp = require('uwp');
uwp.projectNamespace("Windows");

Windows.Storage.KnownFolders.documentsLibrary.createFileAsync(
  "sample.dat", Windows.Storage.CreationCollisionOption.replaceExisting)
  .done(
    function (file) {
      console.log("ok");
      uwp.close(); // all async operations are completed, release uwp
    },
    function (error) {
      console.error("error", error);
      uwp.close(); // all async operations are completed, release uwp
    }
);

Installation

Prerequisites

• Windows 10
• Visual Studio 2015 (RC or later)
• Node.js build on Windows with Chakra

Currently building node.js native addon modules on Windows with Chakra depends on Node.js build. See building native addon modules with Chakra.

node.exe [node_repo]\deps\npm\bin\npm-cli.js install uwp --nodedir=[node_repo] --msvs_version=2015

APIs

This package exports 2 functions.

projectNamespace(name)

Project a UWP namespace of given name.

• Note: This function will keep Node process alive so that your app can continue to run and handle UWP async callbacks. You need to call close() when UWP usage is completed.

close()

Close all UWP handles used by this package. Call this when all UWP usage is completed.