Is there a way to run a web application as a standalone desktop application? There may be a web application written using PHP, MySQL and Apache, converted to a standalone application that meets the following requirements:
1. Application should be called as http://myapp.localhost.
2. Application should have desktop icon which directly opens browser with application URL.
3. Source code of web application should be hidden from users.
4. Installation for end user must be as easy as possible.
Now I do steps 1-2 with xampp and manually create a shortcut. I was interested in some kind of wrapper, an installer that does the above steps automatically. But I have no idea about the third step.
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