Capacitor vs Node.js
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Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices. | Invoke Native SDKs on iOS, Android, Electron, and the Web with one code base. Optimized for Ionic Framework apps, or use with any web app framework.` |
| - | Build web apps that run equally well on iOS, Android, Electron, and as Progressive Web Apps;
Access the full Native SDK on each platform, and easily deploy to App Stores (and the web!);
It provides native functionality for web apps, and is optimized for Ionic Framework;
Build apps with standardized web technologies that will work for decades, and easily reach users on the app stores and the mobile web;
Easily add custom native functionality with a simple Plugin API, or use existing Cordova plugins with our compatibility layer;
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Statistics | |
GitHub Stars 114.1K | GitHub Stars 14.2K |
GitHub Forks 33.7K | GitHub Forks 1.1K |
Stacks 200.4K | Stacks 288 |
Followers 164.5K | Followers 326 |
Votes 8.5K | Votes 2 |
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What are some alternatives to Node.js, Capacitor?
Rails
Rails is a web-application framework that includes everything needed to create database-backed web applications according to the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern.
Django
Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design.
Laravel
It is a web application framework with expressive, elegant syntax. It attempts to take the pain out of development by easing common tasks used in the majority of web projects, such as authentication, routing, sessions, and caching.
.NET
.NET is a general purpose development platform. With .NET, you can use multiple languages, editors, and libraries to build native applications for web, mobile, desktop, gaming, and IoT for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and more.
Ionic
Free and open source, Ionic offers a library of mobile and desktop-optimized HTML, CSS and JS components for building highly interactive apps. Use with Angular, React, Vue, or plain JavaScript.
ASP.NET Core
A free and open-source web framework, and higher performance than ASP.NET, developed by Microsoft and the community. It is a modular framework that runs on both the full .NET Framework, on Windows, and the cross-platform .NET Core.
Flutter
Flutter is a mobile app SDK to help developers and designers build modern mobile apps for iOS and Android.
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.
Symfony
It is written with speed and flexibility in mind. It allows developers to build better and easy to maintain websites with PHP..
Spring
A key element of Spring is infrastructural support at the application level: Spring focuses on the "plumbing" of enterprise applications so that teams can focus on application-level business logic, without unnecessary ties to specific deployment environments.
