converting html+js to exe

Question

I have an HTML file with embedded Javascript, and I want to convert it to a stand-alone exe.

Is that possible? How can I do it? Any html2exe tool out there?

P.S. If you must ask why, it's a very simple text-processing utility, but certain people want it (for reasons beyond me) as a desktop application.

Answer 1

Try this open-source app Node-webkit (from here https://github.com/rogerwang/node-webkit) powered by Chromium JS engine and Node.js. You can pack the Node-webkit app package to a standalone .exe file. Please go through the documentation provided in the page. https://github.com/rogerwang/node-webkit/wiki/How-to-package-and-distribute-your-apps

Read the Node.js documentation http://nodejs.org/api/ and see how powerful the API is! Node-webkit provides additional API to make app menubar, use system tray icon and post notifications etc and to make the application more native! Fortunately, Node-webkit is cross-platform so you can easily port apps to Linux and Mac OS X!

I strongly recommend you to use Node-webkit to make powerful desktop apps in HTML5 CSS3 and JavaScript. All the best! :)

Here are some examples : StormCloud, NitroTasks etc.. https://github.com/rogerwang/node-webkit/wiki/List-of-apps-and-companies-using-node-webkit

Answer 2

They don't generate an exe but you may be interested in looking into Adobe AIR and its opensource rival Titanium