Note: Nativefier is unmaintained, please see nativefier#1577.

You want to make a native-looking wrapper for WhatsApp Web (or any web page).

nativefier 'web.whatsapp.com'

You're done.

Nativefier is a command-line tool to easily create a “desktop app” for any web site with minimal fuss. Apps are wrapped by Electron (which uses Chromium under the hood) in an OS executable (.app, .exe, etc) usable on Windows, macOS and Linux.

I built this because I grew tired of having to Alt-Tab to my browser and then search through numerous open tabs when using Messenger or Whatsapp Web (HN thread). Nativefier features:

• Automatically retrieval of app icon / name
• Injection of custom JS & CSS
• Many more, see the API docs or nativefier --help

Install Nativefier globally with npm install -g nativefier . Requirements:

• macOS 10.13+ / Windows / Linux
• Node.js ≥ 16.9 and npm ≥ 7.10

Optional dependencies:

• ImageMagick or GraphicsMagick to convert icons. Be sure convert + identify or gm are in your $PATH.
• Wine to build Windows apps from non-Windows platforms. Be sure wine is in your $PATH.

docker run --rm -v ~/nativefier-apps:/target/ nativefier/nativefier https://mail.google.com/ /target/

docker run --rm -v ~/my-icons-folder/:/src -v $TARGET-PATH:/target nativefier/nativefier --icon /src/icon.png --name whatsApp -p linux -a x64 https://web.whatsapp.com/ /target/

To create an app for medium.com, simply nativefier 'medium.com'

Nativefier will try to determine the app name, and well as other options that you can override. For example, to override the name, nativefier --name 'My Medium App' 'medium.com'

Read the API docs or run nativefier --help to learn about command-line flags and configure your app.

See CATALOG.md for site-specific ideas & workarounds contributed by the community.

If this doesn’t help, go look at our issue tracker.

Help welcome on bugs and feature requests!

Docs: Developer / build / hacking, API / flags, Changelog.

License: MIT.