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Electron vs JUCE: What are the differences?
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; JUCE: Deliver music applications on all main platforms, with high performances and professional tools. 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.
Electron and JUCE belong to "Cross-Platform Desktop Development" category of the tech stack.
Some of the features offered by Electron are:
- Use HTML, CSS, and JavaScript with Chromium and Node.js to build your app.
- Electron is open source
- maintained by GitHub and an active community.
On the other hand, JUCE provides the following key features:
- For desktop and mobile
- Building powerful and complex applications
- User Interface & Graphics
Electron and JUCE are both open source tools. It seems that Electron with 76.2K GitHub stars and 10K forks on GitHub has more adoption than JUCE with 1.66K GitHub stars and 682 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 JUCE
- Cross platform4
- Fast2
- Pure C++ code1
- Open Source1
- Performance1
- Nice GUI1
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Cons of Electron
- Uses a lot of memory19
- 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 JUCE
- Free Edition has Made with Juce2
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