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electrino vs React Native Desktop: What are the differences?

Developers describe electrino as "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. On the other hand, React Native Desktop is detailed as "React Native for OS X". Build OS X desktop apps using React Native.

electrino and React Native Desktop belong to "Cross-Platform Desktop Development" category of the tech stack.

electrino and React Native Desktop are both open source tools. It seems that React Native Desktop with 11.2K GitHub stars and 478 forks on GitHub has more adoption than electrino with 3.61K GitHub stars and 84 GitHub forks.

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Pros of electrino
Pros of React Native Desktop
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    Little size application file
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    Minimum portion of the APIs available in Electron
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    Pretty awesome
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    Is native app
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    Does not include any browser
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    Memory usage reduced
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    Quickly convert react.js web app to desktop app
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    Open source

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Cons of electrino
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      Memory usage reduced

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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 React Native Desktop?

    Build OS X desktop apps using React Native.

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    What tools integrate with electrino?
    What tools integrate with React Native Desktop?
    What are some alternatives to electrino and React Native Desktop?
    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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