Standalone Node.js application

Question

I am considering developing a desktop application composed of 2 parts:

• user interface (Java app for example)
• back-end Node.js server

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Answer 1

Here's an option: Light Table is a node app, but installs nicely and integrates the GUI (webkit) cleanly on most OSs.

To do this it leverages node-webkit. (Runs node code straight from an html page.) Here is the packaging documentation.