my-nativefier-apps

Creating PWAs apps in your linux distribution automatically

Created by SuperNova Team.

Index

• Installing dependencies
• Installing my apps

Dependencies

• Python 3
• Nodejs
• Nativefier

Installation

Using an Ubuntu based system you can just:

Installing python

  sudo apt-get install python3

Installing node

  sudo apt-get install curl
  curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_12.x | sudo -E bash -
  sudo apt-get install nodejs

Installing Nativefier

  sudo npm i nativefier -g

Installing my-nativefier-app

• First clone this repository

  git clone https://github.com/hfabio/my-nativefier-apps.git

• Now you can open the apps.json and configure the apps you want to install. Follow this model for each app:

  {
    "name": "the name for your app",
    "url": "https://the-link-for-app.com/",
    "icon": "name-of-icon-in-icons-page"
  }

note, the icon entry is optional, use it only if you want to change the default icon if you really want to use a custom icon, dont forget to use the right name for the icon

• To run

Just use the terminal in this folder and run:

  python3 creator.py

note: you will need to insert your sudo password to move the .desktop entries to /usr/share/applications folder