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Good day, everyone!

I have a architectural question, what tools can I use when will develop and deploy a think client for ONE DESKTOP computer? My application must work in browser on one computer, DB must placed on same computer. If it possible, no application server (IIS, Apache, Node.js).

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  • It sounds like the question is too broad, its better to provide some additional info about OS, languages etc. – ekostadinov Oct 06 '14 at 09:12
  • To start it will work in Windows, but I think browsers are crossplatform, and HTML application will work for any OS. For example I can use Node.js+Html+Js, write some code in JS and HTML, for DB I can use MySQL or MongoDB, but it is too big application tools, or I can use just Html page with WebSQL. In general I need develop little applications, and I do not want use thick client. – slavayancheg Oct 06 '14 at 09:42

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To make desktop application from HTML application, you'll need JS libraries that can call native OS API, something like node-ffi, node-webkit or appjs[3], that allows use native API, but they all work under node.js framework. Or you can try use browser API for access to OS functions, Firefox[4] and Chrome[5].

If you need to develop simple web application, try use HTML pages + JS + CSS + WebSQL or localStorage.

Here[6] you can learn more about HTML5.

3 - appjs.com/

4 - developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Using_the_Browser_API

5 - developer.chrome.com/extensions/api_index

6 - slides.html5rocks.com/#landing-slide

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