svelte-nodegui

[!WARNING] No longer being maintained. Recommended you use the main NodeGUI flavour instead.

Build performant, native and cross-platform desktop applications with Node.js and Svelte 🚀. Svelte NodeGUI is a Svelte renderer for NodeGUI, powered by Qt5 💚 which makes it CPU- and memory-efficient compared to Chromium-based solutions like Electron.

Key Features

• 🧬 Cross-platform support (Linux, Windows, macOS)
• 📉 Low resource usage (0% CPU idle, <20MB memory for Hello World)
• 💅 CSS styling with Flexbox layout support (via Yoga)
• ✅ Full Node.js API compatibility (Node v12.x+)
• 🎪 Native widget event listeners
• 💸 Commercial use allowed
• 🕵️‍♂️ Devtools support
• 📚 Comprehensive documentation
• 🏅 First-class TypeScript support

Target Audience

Developers looking to build native desktop applications using Svelte and Node.js with lower resource consumption than Electron-based solutions.

Framework Support

Primarily focused on Svelte support. For other frameworks:

• React: React NodeGUI
• Vue: Vue NodeGUI

Resources

• Documentation: svelte.nodegui.org
• Starter template: svelte-nodegui-starter
• Examples: nodegui/examples

Project Status

⚠️ No longer maintained - The maintainers recommend using the main NodeGUI project instead.