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Photon vs NodeGUI: What are the differences?

What is 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.

What is NodeGUI? *A library for building cross-platform native desktop applications *. It is an open source library for building cross-platform native desktop applications with JavaScript and CSS like styling. It is based on Qt5 and NOT chromium, hence it is memory and cpu efficient.

Photon and NodeGUI belong to "Cross-Platform Desktop Development" category of the tech stack.

Photon and NodeGUI are both open source tools. It seems that Photon with 9.12K GitHub stars and 528 forks on GitHub has more adoption than NodeGUI with 2.35K GitHub stars and 34 GitHub forks.

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Pros of NodeGUI

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Its not hybrid & fully native.
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Easy to make cross platform & resource efficient apps
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Has React & Vue support named (react|vue)-nodegui
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It uses Qode which is a fork of Node to be used with QT
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No webkit thus super resource efficient
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Rich API which binds C++ QT

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Cons of NodeGUI

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Doesn't have x86 support

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What is NodeGUI?

It is an open source library for building cross-platform native desktop applications with JavaScript and CSS like styling. It is based on Qt5 and NOT chromium, hence it is memory and cpu efficient.

What is 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.

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What are some alternatives to NodeGUI and Photon?

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.

Proton Native

Create native desktop applications through a React syntax, on all platforms.

JavaFX

It is a set of graphics and media packages that enables developers to design, create, test, debug, and deploy rich client applications that operate consistently across diverse platforms.

pygame

It is a cross-platform set of Python modules designed for writing video games. It includes computer graphics and sound libraries designed to be used with the Python programming language.

Qt5

It is a full development framework with tools designed to streamline the creation of applications and user interfaces for desktop, embedded, and mobile platforms.

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