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Electron vs Photon: 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; Photon: Framework for Electron apps. The fastest way to build beautiful Electron apps using simple HTML and CSS. Underneath it all is Electron. Originally built for GitHub's Atom text editor, Electron is the easiest way to build cross-platform desktop applications.
Electron and Photon can be primarily classified as "Cross-Platform Desktop Development" tools.
Electron and Photon are both open source tools. Electron with 74.9K GitHub stars and 9.8K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Photon with 9.04K GitHub stars and 519 GitHub forks.
Pros of Electron
- Easy to make rich cross platform desktop applications66
- Open source50
- Great looking apps such as Slack and Visual Studio Code12
- Because it's cross platform6
- Use Node.js in the Main Process3
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Cons of Electron
- Uses a lot of memory17
- 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
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