Angular2 - Directives

Directives give us the ability to create tags which can be directly used in the template. Since they are not HTML5 templates, we need to define how Angular can render these components In the end, they would be converted to a representation that a browser...

NW.JS (node-webkit) – An Introduction

Node webkit allows HTML5 applications to run in a desktop. It uses NodeJS and Chromium. Both are using the same V8 javscript engine. Since this runs as a desktop application, it doesn’t have the sandbox restrictions. So in the same page, you can open a file from file-system and then render the contents in the web browser.

NW.JS allows calling node js modules directly from DOM.

In this example, we would create a sample application which would...