App

App API requires node-webkit >= v0.3.1

Synopsis

// Load native UI library
var gui = require('nw.gui');

// Print arguments
console.log(gui.App.argv);

// Quit current app
gui.App.quit();

Reference

argv

Get the command line arguments when starting the app.

fullArgv

Get all the command line arguments when starting the app. Because node-webkit itself used switches like --no-sandbox and --process-per-tab, it would confuse the app when the switches were meant to be given to node-webkit, so App.argv just filtered such switches (arguments' precedence were kept). You can get the switches to be filtered with App.filteredArgv.

closeAllWindows()

Available after node-webkit v0.3.2

Send the close event to all windows of current app, if no window is blocking the close event, then the app will quit after all windows have done shutdown. Use this method to quit an app will give windows a chance to save data.

quit()

Quit current app. This method will not send close event to windows and app will just quit quietly.

clearCache()

Clear the HTTP cache in memory and the one on disk. This method call is synchronized.

Events

Following events can be listened by using App.on() function, for more information on how to receive events, you can visit EventEmitter.

open

Available after node-webkit v0.3.2

Emitted when users opened a file with your app. For more on this, see Handling files and arguments.