Friday Hacks #109, March 11
Posted on by Varun
For our fifth Friday Hacks of the semester, we’re having Jia Hao, an undergrad from SUTD to talk about his popular nativefier project.
Date/Time: Friday, March 11 at 7:00pm
Venue: VCRm, School of Computing
Facebook Event link: https://www.facebook.com/events/1665215933745308/
Nativefier - Wrap any web page into an executable without even thinking
Talk Description:
Nativefier is an open source Node.js command line tool that allows you to easily create a desktop application for any web site with succinct and minimal configuration. Apps are wrapped by Electron in an OS executable for use on Windows, OSX and Linux. In this talk, Jia Hao will discuss the the architecture of Nativefier, and share a little about what he has learnt while working with Electron, which powers apps like Atom, Slack and more on the desktop. You can try it out here: nativefier
Speaker Profile
Jia Hao is a final year student at SUTD studying Information Systems Technology and Design (Computer Science). He enjoys experimenting and playing with upcoming technologies for the web, and building programs to automate menial tasks.