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Gallium vs React Native Desktop: What are the differences?
Gallium: Build desktop applications in Go and HTML. Gallium is a Go library for managing windows, menus, dock icons, and desktop notifications. Each window contains a webview component, in which you code your UI in HTML. Under the hood, the webview is running Chromium; React Native Desktop: React Native for OS X. Build OS X desktop apps using React Native.
Gallium and React Native Desktop can be categorized as "Cross-Platform Desktop Development" tools.
Gallium and React Native Desktop are both open source tools. It seems that React Native Desktop with 11.2K GitHub stars and 478 forks on GitHub has more adoption than Gallium with 3.63K GitHub stars and 132 GitHub forks.
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- Does not include any browser2
- Memory usage reduced2
- Quickly convert react.js web app to desktop app1
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What is Gallium?
Gallium is a Go library for managing windows, menus, dock icons, and desktop notifications. Each window contains a webview component, in which you code your UI in HTML. Under the hood, the webview is running Chromium.
What is React Native Desktop?
Build OS X desktop apps using React Native.
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