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For existing web applications, Windows 10 makes it easy for you to create a Universal Windows Platform (UWP) app that packages your website for publishing to the Store.
With Visual Studio, you can create your very own Hosted Web App in a matter of minutes. The free, full-featured Visual Studio Community 2015 includes the Windows 10 developer tools, universal app templates, a code editor, a powerful debugger, Windows Mobile emulators, rich language support, and much more.
If you do not have access to Visual Studio, there are a few options from which you can choose. ManifoldJS is a Node.js app that easily installs from NPM. You can also use App Studio, a free, online app creation tool that allows you to quickly build Windows 10 apps.
We have made it easy to convert your existing Chrome hosted app to a Windows Hosted Web App with the HWA-CLI tool, which generates an .appx package from your existing .zip or .crx files.
Make your app sparkle by accessing native Windows features in JavaScript from the Windows Runtime.
Set Application Content URI Rules (ACURs) with our Content Security Policy (CSP) model and keep your app secure.
Run your app with the power of voice!
Grant programmatic access to user resources and device functionality.
Create a simple and smooth login flow for your users by verifying their identity with OpenID and OAuth.
Stop having to decide between running online with a Hosted Web App and running offline with a Packaged Web App – have a bit of both.
The Contoso Travel App demonstrates a few simple ways to call the Windows Runtime APIs. The source code is available here.
Experiment with Windows APIs using JavaScript on this simple demo page. The source code is available here.
