Hacktoberfest 2026: the issues maintainers tagged for October, open and beginner-friendly. Browse Hacktoberfest issues

How to use on Windows 64bit

Open
#5 8 comments 0 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub

Nobody has claimed this yet.

Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
30/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
javascript
Domain
desktop

Research direction

Reproduce the launch flow using github-reader-win64.zip from release 1.3.2: unzip it and run win64/github-reader.exe on Windows 64-bit. Inspect the resulting nw.js window and determine whether the application launches successfully; done means the GitHub client opens instead of showing only the nw.js window.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Description

bug help wanted

What I tried

  1. Downloaded https://github.com/azu/github-reader/releases/download/1.3.2/github-reader-win64.zip
  2. unzipped it
  3. Double-clicked win64/github-reader.exe

What happened

Only displayed a window titled "nw.js".

Is this the right way to launch on Windows?

Dominant language
JavaScript
Stars
134
Forks
8
PR merge metrics
No merged PRs in 30d

Contributor guide

No contributing guide indexed for this repository

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

More from azu/github-reader

All issues in azu/github-reader

Similar issues

More JavaScript issues

Get new issues in your inbox

A short digest of beginner-friendly GitHub issues.