bojzi

One interesting aspect of developing for different platforms came from Facebook's React Team (https://code.facebook.com/posts/1014532261909640/react-nativ...):

"It's worth noting that we're not chasing “write once, run anywhere.” Different platforms have different looks, feels, and capabilities, and as such, we should still be developing discrete apps for each platform, but the same set of engineers should be able to build applications for whatever platform they choose, without needing to learn a fundamentally different set of technologies for each. We call this approach “learn once, write anywhere.”"

Yeah, that's what put me off of NW.js too. The prebuilt Electron binaries, electron-packager and electron-builder are too good to pass up. That also sounds like a sweet project to learn the ins and outs of Node because you can hack away at a chat app for weeks adding cool features.

That looks pretty cool and I love that there's a ready made gulp file for most of the common tasks. :)