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It was time to do more research and, by the looks of it, at that time, there had been not a single node-webkit based app on the Mac App Store.

After changing around some entitlements and removing some unneeded libraries, the app got rejected again. (Mis)Adventures of deploying to Mac App StoreĪfter the initial submission, the timer app was soon rejected. I had hoped that the process would be as simple as signing your files and uploading the app, however it was a lot more complicated… We signed up for the Mac developer programme and received the signing certificates.

However, we decided to go the Mac App Store way as it’s where Mac users expect to find their Apps. We could have made the process simple and released a DMG or released a standalone installer.

TEAMWORK TIMER LAUNCHPAD WINDOWS

Deploying for Windows was also quite painless - the only prerequisite was purchasing a signing certificate and the deployment could be described in a few simple steps:

TEAMWORK TIMER LAUNCHPAD DOWNLOAD

The most straightforward release were the Linux builds - we zipped the executables and put them up for download - with less than 1% of our customers using Linux, it was not viable to package it for different Linux distros. Although we previously had Adobe Air-based desktop apps, none of us had gone through the process of releasing an actual standalone desktop app.Īlthough the process can be quite involved, after a good bit of research we narrowed it down to a simple-enough process for each platform. The development phase of any new project is a lot of fun, but there comes a time when you have to ship the product. Once the decision to switch to NW.js was made, the transition was quite smooth - it was only a matter of moving over from Chrome APIs to node.js modules and some minor UI changes. The bits we do share in common are prominent in our other projects too, including CoffeeScript which has become a major player in our projects with Knockout.js dominating the interface, LESS for much easier and consistent styling, and Jade for faster templating (although I believe so far the latter is only used in the timer and chat apps). Although the Timer codebase hasn’t strayed too far from the original, Teamwork Chat has grown to a big, well-structured codebase - you would not be able to tell it all started from node-webkit-base-app. We started off working on a basic app “shell” which could be shared between our projects, however, after initial set-up, our projects went in quite different directions and the base-app repo hasn’t seen any love in quite a long time. Its having node.js bundled-in was the main selling point, as it opens up a lot more options than client-only JavaScript. It wasn’t the only HTML/CSS/JS-to-desktop framework at the time, but it was looking like the most promising. Being the new kid on the block, NW.js was getting quite a lot of attention. As they were faced with a similar challenge (among many others) of building a cross-platform desktop application, they came up with the idea of using NW.js (node-webkit at the time). Enter NW.jsĪround the same time, the Teamwork Chat team, or rather - duo at the time ( Adam and Donal) was born. However, I was not altogether happy with the idea of restricting our customers to a single browser - although I do love Google Chrome and it’s my browser of choice, it would be unfair to restrict it to Chrome users. At the end of the month I had started working on a Chrome app - this was to be our solution for a cross-platform program. I had a few options for my next project, but one that caught my attention was a rework of our old Adobe Air-based timer. In the middle of January 2014, I had just finished up and released the first version of the Chrome Extension. I’m going to roughly outline it in this post. Getting the app to the point it is at now was a long and gruesome, but still very enjoyable process. I am currently the lead developer of our new revamped cross-platform Timer App. It has been quite some time since my last Engine Room post and it’s about time I contributed once again!

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