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Electron vs ReactNativeEverywhere: What are the differences?

Developers describe Electron as "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. On the other hand, ReactNativeEverywhere is detailed as "Target almost all platforms at once with react native". Starter kit to target multiple platforms 🌐 📱 💻 with react-native' APIs. Cut out the time and effort it takes to setup the project(based on create-react-app). Achieve 'Write once use everywhere' with react-native (though react strictly says 'Learn once use anywhere').

Electron and ReactNativeEverywhere can be primarily classified as "Cross-Platform Desktop Development" tools.

Electron and ReactNativeEverywhere are both open source tools. It seems that Electron with 74.9K GitHub stars and 9.8K forks on GitHub has more adoption than ReactNativeEverywhere with 1.18K GitHub stars and 87 GitHub forks.

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Pros of Electron

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Easy to make rich cross platform desktop applications
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Open source
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Great looking apps such as Slack and Visual Studio Code
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Because it's cross platform
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Use Node.js in the Main Process

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Uses a lot of memory
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User experience never as good as a native app
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No proper documentation
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Does not native
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Each app needs to install a new chromium + nodejs
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Wrong reference for dom inspection

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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.

What is ReactNativeEverywhere?

Starter kit to target multiple platforms 🌐 📱 💻 with react-native' APIs. Cut out the time and effort it takes to setup the project(based on create-react-app). Achieve 'Write once use everywhere' with react-native (though react strictly says 'Learn once use anywhere').

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What are some alternatives to Electron and ReactNativeEverywhere?

Photon

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.

React Native Desktop

Build OS X desktop apps using React Native.

React Native

React Native enables you to build world-class application experiences on native platforms using a consistent developer experience based on JavaScript and React. The focus of React Native is on developer efficiency across all the platforms you care about - learn once, write anywhere. Facebook uses React Native in multiple production apps and will continue investing in React Native.

React

Lots of people use React as the V in MVC. Since React makes no assumptions about the rest of your technology stack, it's easy to try it out on a small feature in an existing project.

JavaScript

JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.

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