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electrino vs Nativefier: What are the differences?

electrino: Experimental featherweight alternative to Electron. A desktop runtime for apps built on web technologies, using the system's own web browser engine. It implements a minuscule portion of the APIs available in Electron, but the output app size is much smaller; Nativefier: 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.

electrino and Nativefier can be primarily classified as "Cross-Platform Desktop Development" tools.

electrino and Nativefier are both open source tools. Nativefier with 20.1K GitHub stars and 1.15K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than electrino with 3.61K GitHub stars and 84 GitHub forks.

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Pros of electrino
Pros of Nativefier
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    Little size application file
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    Minimum portion of the APIs available in Electron
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    Has a better Javascript support, and is much faster

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What is electrino?

A desktop runtime for apps built on web technologies, using the system's own web browser engine. It implements a minuscule portion of the APIs available in Electron, but the output app size is much smaller.

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.

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      What are some alternatives to electrino and Nativefier?
      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.
      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.
      Node.js
      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.
      HTML5
      HTML5 is a core technology markup language of the Internet used for structuring and presenting content for the World Wide Web. As of October 2014 this is the final and complete fifth revision of the HTML standard of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The previous version, HTML 4, was standardised in 1997.
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