I have a nwjs app for Windows and Mac. I want to use the same code for creating an app for Chrome OS. This app contains NodeJS code, I am trying to figure out if NodeJS is supported by ChromeOS. I tried to install the folder as unpacked extension in the Chrome but looks like it is not able to figure out the require function and other Node related functions. Any help is appreciated. Thanks in advance.
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Jayant Varshney
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I'm pretty sure that you can't use NodeJS in a Chrome Extension. However, it is now (since around May 2018) possible to easily enable a Linux container in ChromeOS, in which you can install NodeJS and run corresponding apps.
For example, I have an electron app, and I was able to generate a Linux package for it using electron-forge and run it on ChromeOS using the Linux container. Performance was not great though, and some features, such as use of serial ports with node-serialport, were not yet available.
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