Window Form using Node.js

Question

Hello all, is there any possibility that I can make window form using Node.js which will be draw on other applications of Windows?

Answer 1

Yes, you could build window desktop applications using electron.js

Electron.js allows for the development of desktop GUI applications using web technologies: it combines the Chromium rendering engine and the Node.js runtime.

Answer 2

Hamdan Farooq ipcMain is the interprocess communication method between election app and web pages, which is different from what interprocess that Martin Taylor has mentioned.

Answer 3

Hamdan Farooq Follow the following steps to setup a basic desktop application using election.js.

// Quickstart of simple electron app
// commands to run to setup electron package in node.js
npm init -y
npm i -D electron

// modified package.json
"main": "main.js"
"script": {
"start": "electron ."
}

// create index.htmk and add content in

// run electron app from main.js
import {app, BrowserWindow} = require(electron);

app.whenReady.then(() => {
const win = new BrowserWindow({
width: 800,
height: 600
});

win.loadFile('index.html');
});

// to compile the desktop application, run command
npm start

https://code.sololearn.com/ca9a6a20A5A1/?ref=app

Answer 4

I can't imagine why you would want to use Node over C# for winforms...

Answer 5

I never said I will use node over c# I am working with react.js node.js and react native also. And currently I am doing demo project for more practicing that is why I am asking. Aleksei Radchenkov

Answer 6

Oh ok, you surely can make .net app that connects to socket.io:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/bitstobrowser.wordpress.com/2015/12/18/connecting-a-node-app-using-socket-io-to-a-windows-forms-net-client-application/amp/

Answer 7

Aleksei Radchenkov Thank you.

Answer 8

Martin Taylor you are saying right I have found ipcMain (for the communication)

Answer 9

Calviղ Thank you

Answer 10

Calviղ thanks I was searching for interprocess communication and I misunderstood ipcMain.

Answer 11

Thanks Calviղ. My application has been completed the only thing that I am struggling on now is to activate mouse event true when pressing any key (in my case is 'z') and disabling mouse Event on pressing key(in my case is 'x').

Answer 12

@Hamdan Farooq, I am also working on the same thing I want to call my C# classes code behind Electron UI. Can you help me out?