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Durandal vs React Desktop: What are the differences?
What is Durandal? Single Page Apps Done Right. Durandal is a cross-device, cross-platform client framework written in JS and designed to make Single Page Applications (SPAs) easy to create and maintain.
What is React Desktop? React UI Components for OS X El Capitan and Windows 10. react-desktop is a JavaScript library built ontop of Facebook's React library, which aims to bring a native desktop experience to the web, featuring many OS X El Capitan and Windows 10 components. react-desktop works perfectly with node-webkit and Electron.js, but can be used in any JavaScript powered project!.
Durandal belongs to "Javascript MVC Frameworks" category of the tech stack, while React Desktop can be primarily classified under "Cross-Platform Desktop Development".
Durandal and React Desktop are both open source tools. It seems that React Desktop with 8.29K GitHub stars and 418 forks on GitHub has more adoption than Durandal with 1.78K GitHub stars and 391 GitHub forks.
Pros of Durandal
- UI components3
- Easy to learn3
- Javascript2
- Free2
- Works IE8 >2
- Customizable2
- Quick to develop2
- Easy to start2
- Open source2