While I can't speak for the author, one benefit of packaging your app with node-webkit[1]; is that your app is always used inside this container, that bundles a

While I can't speak for the author, one benefit of packaging your app with node-webkit[1]; is that your app is always used inside this container, that bundles a very recent version of Chromium and has a node.js backend with file system access. [1]: https://github.com/rogerwang/node-webkit https://github.com/rogerwang/node-webkit