JavaFX vs qbrt

Overview

JavaFX

Stacks280

Followers418

Votes11

qbrt

Stacks1

Followers7

Votes0

GitHub Stars393

Forks31

JavaFX vs qbrt: What are the differences?

Developers describe JavaFX as "A Java library for building Rich Internet Applications". 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. On the other hand, qbrt is detailed as "Cross-platform HTML/JS desktop apps using the Firefox Gecko runtime". qbrt is a command-line interface to a Gecko desktop app runtime. It's designed to simplify the process of building and testing desktop apps using Gecko.

JavaFX and qbrt can be categorized as "Cross-Platform Desktop Development" tools.

qbrt is an open source tool with 345 GitHub stars and 35 GitHub forks. Here's a link to qbrt's open source repository on GitHub.

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Detailed Comparison

JavaFX	qbrt
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.	qbrt is a command-line interface to a Gecko desktop app runtime. It's designed to simplify the process of building and testing desktop apps using Gecko.
Statistics
GitHub Stars -	GitHub Stars 393
GitHub Forks -	GitHub Forks 31
Stacks 280	Stacks 1
Followers 418	Followers 7
Votes 11	Votes 0
Pros & Cons
Pros 11 Light Cons 1 Community support less than qt 1 Complicated	No community feedback yet

What are some alternatives to JavaFX, qbrt?

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.

Sciter

It brings a stack of web technologies to desktop UI development. Web designers, and developers, can reuse their experience and expertise in creating modern looking desktop applications.

wxWidgets

It is a C++ library that lets developers create applications for Windows, macOS, Linux and other platforms with a single code base. It has popular language bindings for Python, Perl, Ruby and many other languages, and unlike other cross-platform toolkits, it gives applications a truly native look and feel because it uses the platform's native API rather than emulating the GUI. It's also extensive, free, open-source and mature.

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.

React Native Desktop

Build OS X desktop apps using React Native.

JUCE

It is a C++ framework for low-latency applications, with cross-platform GUI libraries to get your apps running on Mac OS X, Windows, Linux, iOS and Android.

Proton Native

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

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.

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.

SDL

It is a cross-platform development library designed to provide low level access to audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick, and graphics hardware via OpenGL and Direct3D.