automaton-window

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A small N-API binding of a Win32 window, allowing a minimal module to create and draw GUI in node.js.

Advantages

• This has the advantage of being very lightweight compared to a browser rendering approach where the browser is bundled with the code (eg Electron, Nw.js). This module is at least 100x smaller than the 100mb+ installs required for electron as we can be sure Win32 is already on the target system.
• Low GPU / CPU usage - no fancy rendering and only-when-requested rendering to screen lead to tiny resource requirements

Drawbacks

• Windows only support (linux / MacOS could be supported through similar low level libraries on those systems)
• Very basic drawing/layout - it's currently a literal pixel array with helper functions

building

• npm run build
• npm run demo

Usage

see demo.ts for a basic usage example