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Electron vs Electron.NET: What are the differences?
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.
What is Electron.NET? Build cross platform desktop apps using .NET core and ASP.NET core. Electron.NET is a wrapper around a "normal" Electron application with a embedded ASP.NET Core application. Via our Electron.NET IPC bridge we can invoke Electron APIs from .NET. The CLI extensions hosts our toolset to build and start Electron.NET applications.
Electron and Electron.NET belong to "Cross-Platform Desktop Development" category of the tech stack.
Electron and Electron.NET are both open source tools. Electron with 74.9K GitHub stars and 9.8K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Electron.NET with 3.45K GitHub stars and 283 GitHub forks.
Pros of Electron
- Easy to make rich cross platform desktop applications69
- Open source53
- Great looking apps such as Slack and Visual Studio Code14
- Because it's cross platform8
- Use Node.js in the Main Process4
Pros of Electron.NET
- Muy pesado1
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Cons of Electron
- Uses a lot of memory18
- User experience never as good as a native app8
- No proper documentation4
- Does not native4
- Each app needs to install a new chromium + nodejs1
- Wrong reference for dom inspection1
Cons of Electron.NET
- Gran consumo ram1