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electrino vs Photon: What are the differences?
What is 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.
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.
electrino and Photon can be primarily classified as "Cross-Platform Desktop Development" tools.
electrino and Photon are both open source tools. Photon with 9.04K GitHub stars and 519 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than electrino with 3.61K GitHub stars and 84 GitHub forks.
Pros of electrino
- Little size application file1
- Minimum portion of the APIs available in Electron1