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Electron Toolkit vs Photon: What are the differences?

What is Electron Toolkit? Tools to make launching Electron apps easier. GUI for Electron - package and built your app.

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.

Electron Toolkit and Photon can be primarily classified as "Cross-Platform Desktop Development" tools.

Electron Toolkit and Photon are both open source tools. It seems that Photon with 9.04K GitHub stars and 519 forks on GitHub has more adoption than Electron Toolkit with 829 GitHub stars and 33 GitHub forks.

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What is Electron Toolkit?

GUI for Electron - package and built your app.

What is Photon?

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.

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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.
JavaFX
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.
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.
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.
Element
Element is a Vue 2.0 based component library for developers, designers and product managers, with a set of design resources.
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