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Google Summer of Code 2022 ideas - Neutralinojs

gsoc2022

Google Summer of Code 2022 ideas - Neutralinojs

What is GSoC?

GSoC (Google Summer of Code) is an international program that motivates developers to contribute to open-source projects. Google awards stipends for contributors who successfully complete the GSoC program. GSoc contributors typically work on open-source development tasks under the guidance of organization mentors. Read more details about GSoC from the official website.

How to become a GSoC contributor?

Anyone who is older than 18 can become a contributor with the GSoC 2022 program. Please follow the following steps:

• Join Neutralinojs Discord channel using this invitation link
• Introduce yourself in the #gsoc channel.
• Become familiar with the project, and start contributing
• Tell us about tasks that you would like to work on. If you have new ideas, tell us about goals
• Start drafting a proposal by discussing with mentors
• Submit your proposal and achieve the planned milestons based on the GSoC program schedule.

How to become a GSoC mentor?

If you are familiar with Neutralinojs internals and the codebase, you can become a mentor. Please discuss more details about mentorship by sending an email to neutralinojs[AT]gmail.com

GSoC 2020 project ideas

We have listed down some crucial tasks below for contributing. But, feel free to discuss your own ideas with us via Discord or email (neutralinojs[AT]gmail.com). You can contribute Neutralinojs framework, CLI, client library and templates.

Thanks for contributing to open-source 🎉

Make Neutralinojs compatible with older Windows versions

Issue: neutralinojs/neutralinojs#486

Neutralinojs is tested on Windows 10 and 11, but it is not well-tested with previous Windows versions. The goal of this idea is to update Neutralinojs framework source, build scripts, and DevOps workflow to officially support older Windows versions.

Areas: Windows API, DevOps, and Configuration

Difficulty rating: Medium

Project size: ~350h

Support Unicode characters in Neutralinojs Windows version

Issue: neutralinojs/neutralinojs#613

Unicode characters work without any issue on Neutralinojs Linux and macOS versions. But, Neutralinojs Windows version doesn't render Unicode characters correctly. The goal of this task is to use Windows Unicode APIs and fully support Unicode in the Neutralinojs Windows version.

Areas: Windows API, Refactoring, and Text Encoding

Difficulty rating: Medium

Project size: ~350h

Fix os.setTray function problem for older macOS versions

Issue: neutralinojs/neutralinojs#615

The os.setTray function fails on macOS Catalina and some other versions. The goal of this task to debug the Neutralinojs macOS binary on different macOS versions and apply a generic solution.

Areas: Cocoa API and Debugging

Difficulty rating: Medium

Project size: ~350h

Adding opacity setting to the configuration

Issue: neutralinojs/roadmap#1

Add the opacity option to the configuration to control the webview's opacity on all supported platforms. When the setting is set to 0, and the CSS background also has opacity as 0, the user should be able to see through the window clearly. For other opacity values, the transparancy value needs to be applied accordingly.

Areas: GTK, Cocoa, Win32 APIs

Difficulty rating: Hard

Project size: ~350h

NodeNeutralino: a community project to explain Neutralinojs custom backends

The goal is to create a sample wrapper project to guide developers to use a Node.js backend for a Neutralinojs app with the extension API. This project will use Neutralinojs via Node.js child process API and communicate with the Neutralinojs extension API.

Areas: Node.js and Neutralinojs

Difficulty rating: Easy

Project size: ~175h

C++/JavaScript integration test system enhancements

Neutralinojs project has a integration test suite for testing both C++ and JavaScript code at once. Currently, Neutralinojs integration tests covers minimal tests to detect possible function breakdowns. The goal of this task is to write a complete test suite covering all aspects of Neutralinojs APIs and global variables. Also, we expect to run the test suite on Windows CI instance too.

Areas: Neutralinojs, Unit/Integration testing, Node.js and GitHub Actions

Difficulty rating: Medium

Project size: ~350h