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Electron vs FeathersJS: What are the differences?
What is Electron? Build cross platform desktop apps with web technologies. Formerly known as Atom Shell, made by GitHub. 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.
What is FeathersJS? Real-time, micro-service web framework for NodeJS. Feathers is a real-time, micro-service web framework for NodeJS that gives you control over your data via RESTful resources, sockets and flexible plug-ins.
Electron belongs to "Cross-Platform Desktop Development" category of the tech stack, while FeathersJS can be primarily classified under "Microframeworks (Backend)".
"Easy to make rich cross platform desktop applications" is the top reason why over 50 developers like Electron, while over 2 developers mention "Datastore Agnostic" as the leading cause for choosing FeathersJS.
Electron and FeathersJS are both open source tools. Electron with 74.4K GitHub stars and 9.72K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than FeathersJS with 11K GitHub stars and 473 GitHub forks.
According to the StackShare community, Electron has a broader approval, being mentioned in 213 company stacks & 366 developers stacks; compared to FeathersJS, which is listed in 19 company stacks and 14 developer stacks.
Pros of Electron
- Easy to make rich cross platform desktop applications69
- Open source53
- Great looking apps such as Slack and Visual Studio Code14
- Because it's cross platform8
- Use Node.js in the Main Process4
Pros of FeathersJS
- Real-time12
- Choose any ORM7
- Datastore Agnostic7
- Flexible Plugins6
- Choose Socketio or Primus5
- Easy Rest4
- Isomorphic Services API4
- Open source4
- Scalable3
- Easy to use with Graphql3
- Documentation3
- Service-oriented architecture3
- Data-driven APIs3
- Uses express, will support other options soon3
- Advanced Composable Service Middleware called holds3
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Cons of Electron
- Uses a lot of memory18
- User experience never as good as a native app8
- No proper documentation4
- Does not native4
- Each app needs to install a new chromium + nodejs1
- Wrong reference for dom inspection1
Cons of FeathersJS
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