NW.js, previously known as "node-webkit" project, is an app runtime based on http://alternativeto.net/software/chromium/ and http://alternativeto.net/software/io-js/ . You can write native apps in HTML and Javascript with NW.js. It also lets you call io.js modules directly from the DOM and enables a new way of writing native applications with all Web technologies.
It's created and developed in the Intel Open Source Technology Center.
Features
Apps written in modern HTML5, CSS3, JS and WebGL.
Complete support for Node.js APIs and all its third party modules.
Good performance: io.js and WebKit runs in the same thread: Function calls are made straightforward; objects are in the same heap and can just reference each other;
Easy to package and distribute apps.
Available on Linux, Mac OSX and Windows
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