I made an electron app in 4 lines...
nativefier "http://musicforprogramming.net/" -n "musicforprogramming"
cd musicforprogramming-linux-x64/
sudo chmod +x musicforprogramming
./musicforprogramming
Motivation
I like music, but don't like music in browser tabs. Basically because i have it open all the time, I want to find and control it easily, and I don't want it cluttering up an area that might be soley focused on work.
I discovered some neat apps for google play, and wanted to see if there was one for my other go to, musicforprogramming. There wasn't, so I just casually googled how to convert a page into an electron app and OMFG!
Solution
nativefier
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nativefier
Make any web page a desktop application
Note: Nativefier is unmaintained, please see #1577.
Nativefier
You want to make a native-looking wrapper for WhatsApp Web (or any web page).
nativefier 'web.whatsapp.com'
You're done.
Introduction
Nativefier is a command-line tool to easily create a “desktop app” for any web site
with minimal fuss. Apps are wrapped by Electron
(which uses Chromium under the hood) in an OS executable (.app, .exe, etc)
usable on Windows, macOS and Linux.
I built this because I grew tired of having to Alt-Tab to my browser and then search through numerous open tabs when using Messenger or Whatsapp Web (HN thread). Nativefier features:
- Automatically retrieval of app icon / name
- Injection of custom JS & CSS
- Many more, see the API docs or
nativefier --help
Installation
Install Nativefier globally with npm install -g nativefier . Requirements:
- macOS 10.13+ / Windows / Linux
- Node.js ≥ 16.9…
This post and this one helped iron out some kinks and now I can launch programming music right from my VS code terminal!
Extra credit
alias musicforprogramming="~/Dev/musicforprogramming-linux-x64/musicforprogramming
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