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Electron Toolkit vs Proton Native: What are the differences?

Electron Toolkit: Tools to make launching Electron apps easier. GUI for Electron - package and built your app; Proton Native: A React environment for cross platform native desktop app. Create native desktop applications through a React syntax, on all platforms.

Electron Toolkit and Proton Native belong to "Cross-Platform Desktop Development" category of the tech stack.

Some of the features offered by Electron Toolkit are:

  • GUI for Electron
  • App icon generator
  • Screen capturer

On the other hand, Proton Native provides the following key features:

  • Same syntax as React Native
  • Works with existing React libraries such as Redux
  • Cross platform

Electron Toolkit and Proton Native are both open source tools. It seems that Proton Native with 8.96K GitHub stars and 269 forks on GitHub has more adoption than Electron Toolkit with 829 GitHub stars and 33 GitHub forks.

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      Full cross plataform
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      Very fast
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      Lightweight
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      React style
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      Is native
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      Code reuse with react native apps

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    Cons of Electron Toolkit
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        Low community for the moment

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      What is Electron Toolkit?

      GUI for Electron - package and built your app.

      What is Proton Native?

      Create native desktop applications through a React syntax, on all platforms.

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