Modes
Neutralinojs applications can be executed on Linux, Windows, macOS, and Browser with four modes: window, browser, cloud, and chrome. The default mode is the window. In other words, your application will run inside a native window by default. However, you can choose the following modes according to your requirement.
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windowNeutralinojs application will run on a native window. The window will use the user's operating system's theme. This mode is a good selection for cross-platform application development.
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browserNeutralinojs application will use the user's default browser to load the application. Therefore, you can build web applications with native operations. You can't typically access operating system-level features via web browsers. But, the Neutralinojs browser mode helps you to make web apps that can access the operating system layer with required security controls.
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cloudThis mode will run the Neutralinojs process as a background server. You will be able to expose your application to a public network or the internet.
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Example scenario: You can make a web application to control your computer via mobile phones.
Besides, you can run the Neutralinojs server on bare-metal servers, virtual machines, and application containers as a lightweight message broker. You may find endless use-cases for this framework mode.
danger
Make sure that you are blocking or allowing critical native operations via
nativeBlockList
, nativeAllowList
respectively. Also, if you started the application with administrator
access, your web application will have the same permission level.
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chromeNeutralinojs app will run as a Chrome application. The framework uses the following Chrome command-line arguments to make the web application look more like a native app.
Neutralinojs chrome mode works on a computer that has a pre-installed version of Google Chrome, Chromium, or Microsoft Edge browser. If no installation was detected, Neutralinojs displays an error message by asking the user to install a Chromium-based browser.
You can provide additional arguments (Eg: --disable-web-security
) to the Chrome process via args
configuration attribute. Browse all supported Chromium command-line arguments here