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Google is building a Chrome app-based development environment

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Re: Google is building a Chrome app-based development environment

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Post by busterc »

Dandy, but Chrome Apps will only ever be marginally more widespread than ChromeOS.

Q. Why? A. Node-WebKit Apps aren't crippled with the sandboxing of the Chrome App API and easily let me target Win/Lin/OSX without requiring the Chrome runtime.

FWIW, I like ChromeOS and would buy a couple of ChromeBoxes for family members, if they had reasonably sized hard drives (200+GB)(SATA) for pictures & videos, and weren't so dependent on Google Drive. Non-tech savvy _NEED_ ChromeOS, they don't need GDrive.

How many of us need yet another IDE for HTML5, CSS & JS? Not me, thanks though. Please Google, get back to autonomous cars and get serious about ChromeOS already.

Re: Google is building a Chrome app-based development environment

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Post by busterc »

mbreese wrote: post #7
pkulak wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They are just apps that use the ChromeOS development library (JS, HTML, CSS and some custom APIs). Think of it like Cocoa on OS X. Except they can also run in the Chrome browser on other OSes. I don't understand why people get so riled up about this.

Is there someway to do standalone installs as well? It seems like that might be against Google's motives in getting everyone to use Chrome as a browser, but it would make it easier to distribute applications in a "traditional" manner. Plus, it would be nice to have dedicated icons, etc...

https://github.com/rogerwang/node-webkit

Re: Google is building a Chrome app-based development environment

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Post by yeukhon »

svachalek wrote: post #36
yeukhon wrote: post #35

> Dart meanwhile is Google’s open-source Web programming language, which has an ultimate goal of replacing JavaScript. Polymer is Google’s library for the Web, built on top of Web Components, and “designed to leverage the evolving web platform on modern browsers.” Go, Dart, Angular.js and now Dart and Polymer. Am I the only one seeing the next wave of confusions?

Because the web was simple and homogenous before this?

I will be fair and the answer is no, but at least for the last 2-3 years we have a little stable environment. If it's ruby app we know it's rail, if it's Python we know it's either Django or Flask (or Pyramid). When we think about client side we think of jQuery and pure Javascript. I know there are coffee script lovers and I admit it's great that people coming up with new tools, but we have too much to digest.

There is a certain degree of peer pressure coming from our co-workers and our webdev community - if you are programming in PHP you are doing it wrong or if you are still doing MVC and not single-page app or node.js you are behind the trend. I have little knowledge about what Dart does but from multiple sources people seem to think Dart is Google's alternative to Javascript, which makes me uncomfortable because I start to feel like I am at the second Web/browser war where large organizations like Google is pushing their own version of "Javascript" (back then we got what? javascript, active script? etc?).

Re: Google is building a Chrome app-based development environment

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Post by mbreese »

busterc wrote: post #44
mbreese wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is there someway to do standalone installs as well? It seems like that might be against Google's motives in getting everyone to use Chrome as a browser, but it would make it easier to distribute applications in a "traditional" manner. Plus, it would be nice to have dedicated icons, etc...

https://github.com/rogerwang/node-webkit

Can you run Chrome Apps with that though? It looks like it might be just nodejs.

Re: Google is building a Chrome app-based development environment

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Post by busterc »

mbreese wrote: post #47
busterc wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://github.com/rogerwang/node-webkit

Can you run Chrome Apps with that though? It looks like it might be just nodejs.

No, you cannot build Chrome Apps with Node-WebKit, but you can target Win/Lin/OSX. See my comments below: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6778882
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