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Nativefier vs React Native Desktop

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Nativefier vs React Native Desktop: What are the differences?

Developers describe Nativefier as "Wrap any web page natively without even thinking, across Windows, OSX and Linux". Nativefier is a command line tool that allows you to easily create a desktop application for any web site with succinct and minimal configuration. Apps are wrapped by Electron in an OS executable (.app, .exe, etc.) for use on Windows, OSX and Linux. On the other hand, React Native Desktop is detailed as "React Native for OS X". Build OS X desktop apps using React Native.

Nativefier and React Native Desktop belong to "Cross-Platform Desktop Development" category of the tech stack.

Nativefier and React Native Desktop are both open source tools. Nativefier with 19.9K GitHub stars and 1.13K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than React Native Desktop with 11.1K GitHub stars and 479 GitHub forks.

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Pros of Nativefier
Pros of React Native Desktop
  • 2
    Has a better Javascript support, and is much faster
  • 3
    Pretty awesome
  • 2
    Is native app
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    Does not include any browser
  • 2
    Memory usage reduced
  • 1
    Quickly convert react.js web app to desktop app
  • 1
    Open source

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Cons of Nativefier
Cons of React Native Desktop
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    • 0
      Memory usage reduced

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    What is Nativefier?

    Nativefier is a command line tool that allows you to easily create a desktop application for any web site with succinct and minimal configuration. Apps are wrapped by Electron in an OS executable (.app, .exe, etc.) for use on Windows, OSX and Linux.

    What is React Native Desktop?

    Build OS X desktop apps using React Native.

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      What tools integrate with Nativefier?
      What tools integrate with React Native Desktop?
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        What are some alternatives to Nativefier and React Native Desktop?
        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.
        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.
        Git
        Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
        GitHub
        GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Over three million people use GitHub to build amazing things together.
        Python
        Python is a general purpose programming language created by Guido Van Rossum. Python is most praised for its elegant syntax and readable code, if you are just beginning your programming career python suits you best.
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