RFC

[ayushmanchhabra]

API v4

nwbuild install --version=0.67.0 --flavour=sdk --outDir

Install one or more NW.js binaries.

nwbuild develop --manifestFile=./nw.develop.json

nwbuild automatically looks for the nw.develop.json manifest which defines options which are more suited for development.

nwbuild package --manifestFile=./nw.package.json

nwbuild automatically looks for the nw.package.json manifest which defines options which are more suited for packaging.

nwbuild installer --extention=dmg

An installer for the packaged applications.

[sysrage]

IMO, all of this would be nice but none of it should be part of nw-builder. Instead, start a project like the Vue CLI tools -- nwcli or something similar, which has the listed functionality.

[TheJaredWilcurt]

I agree with @sysrage, separating CLI and docker stuff makes sense to me. It lets their repo(s) be more scoped to the specific problem it is trying to solve. And it keeps the nw-builder more focused and allows it to evolve to handle more edge cases needed by the community.

nw-builder should be focused on running locally on the current platform. Then if you want to set up GitHub Actions to run against Win, Lin, and OSX, and do 1 native build on each, that can work. Or if you want to just run your code on a single box using docker for the native builds, you could do that instead. But inside the docker container it would still just be using nw-builder normally.

But in general I like the idea of having some tooling that simplifies the process of using Docker and building each platform in their native environment, with their correct Node versions. That solves a lot of problems.

[ayushmanchhabra]

I knew what I wanted to build but didn't know if I should add it to a pre-existing tool like nw-builder or build one from scratch. This clears things up, thanks!

[ayushmanchhabra]

Working on it here:
https://github.com/ayushmxn/nwbuild

[sysrage]

Working on it here: https://github.com/ayushmxn/nwbuild

Awesome! Might I suggest a name change, since many/most of the features aren't actually related to a "build" process? 😉

[ayushmanchhabra]

Sure! I made this a while ago and wasn't sure of it's purpose.

[ayushmanchhabra]

Motivation for this was due to https://github.com/electron-userland/electron-builder and https://github.com/electron-userland/electron-forge. Essentially an all in one build tool but for NW.js