I am suprised to see, how big the javascript community has become! And specifically NodeJS has some serious people in its community. I was trying to do a desktop application in javascript and without searching in the internet, I started out to do it all over again! After a couple of days, out of curiosity, did a search in internet to find, that NodeJS has plenty of options to do the stuff.
Evaluating some options, I settled with Node-Webkit. For now the best 3 in my opinion are;
I must say, NodeJS has already revolutionised the internet. If at all, you think of doing something, search for a NodeJS solution and its possible that the solution is already there.
Happy coding.