# Nativefier

👋 dear users / contributors! Public service announcement!

Nativefier is maintained by YOU. It's reasonably sane to hack on since
the 8.x cleanup, it fits the use cases needed by the original author and
the current maintainer, so _we_ are not doing any active development.

But it's not dead! If YOU use it and want to see juicy features & fixes,
PR welcome! In particular, #902 #831 #706 are three particularly annoying
issues; help welcome on those (or [any other issue](https://github.com/jiahaog/nativefier/issues) that motivates you 🙂).

Thanks! Take care.

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![Dock](docs/dock.png)

You want to make a native wrapper for WhatsApp Web (or any web page).

```bash
nativefier web.whatsapp.com
```

![Walkthrough animation](docs/walkthrough.gif)

You're done.

## Introduction

Nativefier is a command-line tool to easily create a desktop app for any web site
with minimal configuration. Apps are wrapped by [Electron](https://www.electronjs.org/)
(which uses Chromium under the hood) in an OS executable (`.app`, `.exe`, etc)
for use on Windows, macOS and Linux.

I did this because I was tired of having to `⌘-tab` or `alt-tab` to my browser and then search
through the numerous open tabs when I was using [Facebook Messenger](https://messenger.com) or
[Whatsapp Web](https://web.whatsapp.com) ([HN thread](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10930718)). Nativefier features:

- Automatically retrieval of app icon / name.
- JavaScript and CSS injection.
- Many more, see the [API docs](docs/api.md) or `nativefier --help`

## Installation

- macOS 10.9+ / Windows / Linux
- [Node.js](https://nodejs.org/) `>= 10` and npm `>= 6`
- Optional dependencies:
    - [ImageMagick](http://www.imagemagick.org/) to convert icons.
      Make sure `convert` and `identify` are in your system `$PATH`.
    - [Wine](https://www.winehq.org/) to package Windows apps under non-Windows platforms.
      Make sure `wine` is in your system `$PATH`.

Then, install Nativefier globally with  `npm install -g nativefier`

## Usage

To create a native desktop app for [medium.com](https://medium.com),
simply  `nativefier "medium.com"`

Nativefier will try to determine the app name, and well as lots of other options.
If desired, these options can be overwritten. For example, to override the name,
`nativefier --name 'My Medium App' 'medium.com'`

**Read the [API documentation](docs/api.md) or run `nativefier --help`**
to learn about other command-line flags usable to configure the packaged app.

To have high-resolution icons used by default for an app/domain, please
contribute to the [icon repository](https://github.com/jiahaog/nativefier-icons)!

## Usage with Docker

Nativefier is also usable from Docker.
- Pull the latest stable image from Docker Hub: `docker pull jiahaog/nativefier`
- ... or build the image yourself: `docker build -t local/nativefier .`
  (in this case, replace `jiahaog/` in the below examples with `local/`)

By default, the command `nativefier --help` will be executed.
To build e.g. a Gmail nativefier app to a writable local `~/nativefier-apps`,

```bash
docker run --rm -v ~/nativefier-apps:/target/ jiahaog/nativefier https://mail.google.com/ /target/
```

You can pass Nativefier flags, and mount volumes to provide local files. For example, to use an icon,

```bash
docker run --rm -v ~/my-icons-folder/:/src -v $TARGET-PATH:/target jiahaog/nativefier --icon /src/icon.png --name whatsApp -p linux -a x64 https://web.whatsapp.com/ /target/
```

## Development

Help welcome on [bugs](https://github.com/jiahaog/nativefier/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3Abug) and
[feature requests](https://github.com/jiahaog/nativefier/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3Afeature-request).

[Developer / build docs](docs/development.md), [API documentation](docs/api.md), 
[Changelog](CHANGELOG.md).

## License

[MIT](LICENSE.md)