Modes
Neutralinojs applications can be executed on Linux, Windows, macOS, and Browser with four modes: window, browser,cloud, and chrome. The default mode is the window. In other words, your application will run inside a native window by default.However, you can choose the following modes according to your requirement.
window
Neutralinojs application will run on a native window. The window will use the user's operating system's theme.This mode is a good selection for cross-platform application development.
browser
Neutralinojs application will use the user's default browser to load the application.Therefore, you can build web applications with native operations. You can't typically access operatingsystem-level features via web browsers. But, the Neutralinojs browser mode helps you to make web apps that canaccess the operating system layer with required security controls.
cloud
This mode will run the Neutralinojs process as a background server.You will be able to expose your application to a public network or the internet.
Example scenario: You can make a web application to control your computer via mobile phones.
Besides, you can run the Neutralinojs server on bare-metal servers, virtual machines, and application containers as alightweight message broker. You may find endless use-cases for this framework mode.
Make sure that you are blocking or allowing critical native operations vianativeBlockList,nativeAllowList respectively. Also, if you started the application with administratoraccess, your web application will have the same permission level.
chrome
Neutralinojs app will run as a Chrome application. The framework uses the following Chrome command-linearguments to make the web application look more like a native app.
--disable-background-networking
--disable-background-timer-throttling
--disable-backgrounding-occluded-windows
--disable-breakpad
--disable-client-side-phishing-detection
--disable-default-apps
--disable-dev-shm-usage
--disable-infobars
--disable-extensions
--disable-features=site-per-process
--disable-hang-monitor
--disable-ipc-flooding-protection
--disable-popup-blocking
--disable-prompt-on-repost
--disable-renderer-backgrounding
--disable-sync
--disable-translate
--disable-windows10-custom-titlebar
--metrics-recording-only
--no-first-run
--no-default-browser-check
--safebrowsing-disable-auto-update
--password-store=basic
--use-mock-keychain
--user-data-dir=${NL_PATH}/.tmp/chromedata
Neutralinojs chrome mode works on a computer that has a pre-installed version of Google Chrome, Chromium, or Microsoft Edgebrowser. If no installation was detected, Neutralinojs displays an error message by asking the user to installa Chromium-based browser.
You can provide additional arguments (Eg:--disable-web-security) to the Chrome process viaargsconfiguration attribute. Browse all supported Chromium command-line argumentshere