Electron Toolkit vs Proton Native

Overview

Electron Toolkit

Stacks7

Followers92

Votes0

GitHub Stars806

Forks35

Proton Native

Stacks23

Followers182

Votes10

GitHub Stars10.9K

Forks359

Electron Toolkit vs Proton Native: What are the differences?

Electron Toolkit: Tools to make launching Electron apps easier. GUI for Electron - package and built your app; Proton Native: A React environment for cross platform native desktop app. Create native desktop applications through a React syntax, on all platforms.

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

Some of the features offered by Electron Toolkit are:

GUI for Electron
App icon generator
Screen capturer

On the other hand, Proton Native provides the following key features:

Same syntax as React Native
Works with existing React libraries such as Redux
Cross platform

Electron Toolkit and Proton Native are both open source tools. It seems that Proton Native with 8.96K GitHub stars and 269 forks on GitHub has more adoption than Electron Toolkit with 829 GitHub stars and 33 GitHub forks.

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Detailed Comparison

Electron Toolkit	Proton Native
GUI for Electron - package and built your app.	Create native desktop applications through a React syntax, on all platforms.
GUI for Electron; App icon generator; Screen capturer; Website builder	Same syntax as React Native; Works with existing React libraries such as Redux; Cross platform; Native components (no more Electron)
Statistics
GitHub Stars 806	GitHub Stars 10.9K
GitHub Forks 35	GitHub Forks 359
Stacks 7	Stacks 23
Followers 92	Followers 182
Votes 0	Votes 10
Pros & Cons
No community feedback yet	Pros 3 Full cross plataform 3 Very fast 2 Lightweight 1 Is native 1 React style Cons 1 Low community for the moment
Integrations
Electron	React

What are some alternatives to Electron Toolkit, Proton Native?

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.

Sciter

It brings a stack of web technologies to desktop UI development. Web designers, and developers, can reuse their experience and expertise in creating modern looking desktop applications.

wxWidgets

It is a C++ library that lets developers create applications for Windows, macOS, Linux and other platforms with a single code base. It has popular language bindings for Python, Perl, Ruby and many other languages, and unlike other cross-platform toolkits, it gives applications a truly native look and feel because it uses the platform's native API rather than emulating the GUI. It's also extensive, free, open-source and mature.

Qt5

It is a full development framework with tools designed to streamline the creation of applications and user interfaces for desktop, embedded, and mobile platforms.

JavaFX

It is a set of graphics and media packages that enables developers to design, create, test, debug, and deploy rich client applications that operate consistently across diverse platforms.

React Native Desktop

Build OS X desktop apps using React Native.

JUCE

It is a C++ framework for low-latency applications, with cross-platform GUI libraries to get your apps running on Mac OS X, Windows, Linux, iOS and Android.

NodeGUI

It is an open source library for building cross-platform native desktop applications with JavaScript and CSS like styling. It is based on Qt5 and NOT chromium, hence it is memory and cpu efficient.

pygame

It is a cross-platform set of Python modules designed for writing video games. It includes computer graphics and sound libraries designed to be used with the Python programming language.

SDL

It is a cross-platform development library designed to provide low level access to audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick, and graphics hardware via OpenGL and Direct3D.