The bridge between website creation and app creation can be big - Nativefier makes it small
What used to take hours and hours of work can now be simply done within a few minutes with Nativefier - an open source tool.
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Let's get into it! 🚀
Install Prerequisites
You need to be on MacOS or Linux! Sorry Windows users!
We'll be installing Node (>= 12.9) & NPM (>= 6.9) with this command. If you already have this, move on to the next section!
curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.35.3/install.sh | bash
Enter the following commands - I have added comments to briefly explain what they do.
nvm install 12.18.1 # Installs NVM
node --v # Checks if installation was successful
Close the terminal window and open a new one
Install Nativefier
This is the fun part! Type the following commands in your new terminal window. I have added comments again to explain the commands' function.
npm install -g nativefier # Installs NPM globally (not limited to a single directory)
Use Nativefier
We've finished all the hard work, now it's time to test out Nativefier 😎
nativefier yourURLHere # Change *yourURLHere* to an actual link!
Let's use Twitter to test it out!
nativefier twitter.com
Works like a charm!
You can even test out the functionality by following me by searching for @snoopythedev on the app! 😉
Conclusion
In this Flash Guide, you learnt how to convert websites into fully-functional apps by using Nativefier in less than 3 minutes!
If you liked this article, check out the rest in the Flash Guide series that is updated daily!