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Eel vs Electron: What are the differences?

What is Eel? A little Python library for making simple Electron-like HTML/JS GUI apps. Python3 library for making simple Electron-like offline HTML/JS GUI apps, with full access to Python capabilities and libraries. It hosts a local webserver, then lets you annotate functions in Python so that they can be called from Javascript, and vice versa.

What is Electron? Build cross platform desktop apps with web technologies. Formerly known as Atom Shell, made by GitHub. With Electron, creating a desktop application for your company or idea is easy. Initially developed for GitHub's Atom editor, Electron has since been used to create applications by companies like Microsoft, Facebook, Slack, and Docker. The Electron framework lets you write cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS. It is based on io.js and Chromium and is used in the Atom editor.

Eel and Electron belong to "Cross-Platform Desktop Development" category of the tech stack.

Eel and Electron are both open source tools. Electron with 74.9K GitHub stars and 9.8K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Eel with 2.83K GitHub stars and 202 GitHub forks.

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Pros of Eel
Pros of Electron
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    • 68
      Easy to make rich cross platform desktop applications
    • 52
      Open source
    • 13
      Great looking apps such as Slack and Visual Studio Code
    • 7
      Because it's cross platform
    • 3
      Use Node.js in the Main Process

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    Cons of Eel
    Cons of Electron
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      • 18
        Uses a lot of memory
      • 8
        User experience never as good as a native app
      • 4
        No proper documentation
      • 4
        Does not native
      • 1
        Each app needs to install a new chromium + nodejs
      • 1
        Wrong reference for dom inspection

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      What is Eel?

      Python3 library for making simple Electron-like offline HTML/JS GUI apps, with full access to Python capabilities and libraries. It hosts a local webserver, then lets you annotate functions in Python so that they can be called from Javascript, and vice versa.

      What is Electron?

      With Electron, creating a desktop application for your company or idea is easy. Initially developed for GitHub's Atom editor, Electron has since been used to create applications by companies like Microsoft, Facebook, Slack, and Docker. The Electron framework lets you write cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS. It is based on io.js and Chromium and is used in the Atom editor.

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