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Is there anyway to make a standalone chrome web app?

I'm building a front end interface and I would like it to run as an app instead of a website. However, I'd prefer it to run from a desktop icon and not by opening chrome and launching the app or having any of the chrome UI/address bar etc.

I've read around the chrome docs and it seems you can go full screen but not standalone?

Can you please point me in the right direction, preferably using chrome but I could use another WebKit based renderer if that's the only option.

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  • Things have changed a lot in the +-10 years since this was asked, but just to clarify as of 2022...

    We now have the option to compile code (in various languages) to WebAssembly, and run that WASM module using a standalone, platform-indepedent runtime like Wasmer or WasmTime.

    This can even be done for JavaScript code itself, where legacy logic is in JS, making it possible to have older projects run as standalone applications!