Manage Multi-Tenant Webapps using Nodewebkit on Macosx

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Create a Web Application shortcut using NW (node webkit)

Install NW

brew cask install nwjs

create an executable script file as shown below

#!/bin/sh

/Applications/nwjs.app/Contents/MacOS/nwjs --url=<url> --user-data-dir=<local storage folder>

run

./appify.sh <script name>

after that open <script name>.app/Contents/info.plist and update the content of tag <CFBundleExecutable> with script name

	<key>CFBundleExecutable</key>
	<string>{script name}</string>

run

open <script name>.app

Customize icon

1. Make folder Contents/Resources
2. Create an app.icns (for conversion you can use CloudConvert)
3. Copy app.icons in Contents/Resources

or follow instruction here

Alternative Solution

• Run Multiple Instances of Microsoft Teams

appify.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash

APPNAME=${2:-$(basename "${1}" '.sh')};

APPDIR="${APPNAME}.app"
CONTENTSDIR="${APPDIR}/Contents"

DIR="${CONTENTSDIR}/MacOS";
RESDIR="${CONTENTSDIR}/Resources";

if [ -a "${APPDIR}" ]; then
	echo "${PWD}/${APPDIR} already exists :(";
	exit 1;
fi;

mkdir -p "${DIR}";
mkdir -p "${RESDIR}";

# NW SECTION
cp /Applications/nwjs.app/Contents/Info.plist "${CONTENTSDIR}"
cp /Applications/nwjs.app/Contents/Resources/*.icns "${RESDIR}"

cp "${1}" "${DIR}/${APPNAME}";
chmod +x "${DIR}/${APPNAME}";

echo "${PWD}/$APPNAME.app";

Manage Multi-Tenant Webapps using Nodewebkit on Macosx

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