Nativefier Downloader

Nativefier Downloader is a Golang and Tailwind CSS based project to convert your favourite websites into native-looking Electron apps!

Just enter the URL of your favourite website, select your OS and bam! You have an Electron app ready to use!

This project internally uses the Nativefier NPM package for building Electron apps.

Contributing

If you wish to add a new feature, write your contributions on a new branch and open a PR against the dev branch.

Building the Docker container

• From the root of the repository run the command:

docker build --network=host -t nativefier:latest .

• To run the built docker container:

docker run -p 1323:1323 nativefier:latest

• Now browse to localhost:1323 to get to the page.

• A docker image on dockerhub is also available. To use this image, run

docker run -p 1323:1323 spookyintheam/nativefier:latest

Helm Chart for Kubernetes

The repository also includes a helm chart with HPA for autoscaling. To build and deploy the helm chart, from the root of the project directory, run:

helm install nativefier nativefier-helm-chart/

Then get the external IP of the deployment's load balancer by running kubectl get svc. Open the external IP address in the URL bar to access the project's homepage.

TODO

• Support Electron apps for all three major OSes.
• Better frontend
• Push image to dockerhub and also create a Kubernetes deployment Helm chart.
• Refine support for different versions of macOS.
• OS detection from browser (planned but not sure if I'll implement this).