A curated list of awesome packages and frameworks for implementing javascript applications on the desktop.

• GUI Frameworks
• System Tray
• Packaging

• Electron - a Node.js and Chromium runtime to build cross platform desktop apps
• nw.js - a Node.js and Chromium runtime to build cross platform desktop apps
• Thrust - a Node.js and Chromium runtime to build cross platform desktop apps

• Electrino - a runtime to build cross platform desktop apps using the system's own web browser engine (Mac OS only)
• Quark Shell - a runtime to build cross platform desktop apps using the system's own web browser engine (Mac OS only)
• Quark - a runtime to build cross platform desktop apps using the system's own web browser engine (Windows only)

• libui-node - Node.js native desktop GUI framework to build cross-platform (Windows, macOS, Linux) apps.
• proton-native a React.js environment to build cross platform native desktop apps
• vuido - a Vue.js environment to build cross platform native desktop apps

• Brig - a user interface toolkit based on Qt to build cross-platform apps
• Quark - create cross platform desktop apps with Node.js and QML

• Yoga - a layout engine which implements Flexbox to build cross-platform (node, browser asm, and standalone) apps
• Yue - create cross platform desktop apps with Node.js and flexbox (via yoga)

• trayballoon - a system tray balloon on Windows
• systray - a system tray icon and menu that runs on Windows, Mac, Linux
• menubar - easily create a menubar Electron app on MacOS
• xtray - create a native menubar app on MacOS via a node.js ⇆ Swift bridge using objc runtime
• positron-bar - Electron bar for your linux desktop

• nexe - a cli which compiles your Node.js app into a single executable
• pkg - a cli which compiles your Node.js app into a single executable
• node-packer - a cli which compiles your Node.js app into a single executable
• nectarjs - a cli which compiles your Node.js app into a single executable (linux, windows, wasm, asm, arduino)
• lone - a cli which compiles your Node.js app into a single executable
• enclose - a cli which compiles your Node.js app into a single executable
• launchui-packager - an API which packages GUI Node.js applications for Windows, Linux and OS X

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