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Electron vs Nativefier vs Proton Native: What are the differences?
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1. **Installation**: Electron requires installation of Node.js to run, whereas Nativefier and Proton Native are both frameworks that allow conversion of web applications into standalone desktop applications without requiring Node.js or any additional runtimes.
2. **Development Language**: Electron uses HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to build desktop applications, while Nativefier and Proton Native use web technologies along with frameworks like React and Vue to create native-like applications.
3. **Bundle Size**: Electron applications have larger bundle sizes due to including the entire Chromium engine, whereas Nativefier and Proton Native generate smaller executable files by leveraging the native platform's capabilities.
4. **UI Components**: Electron provides a customizable set of UI components like buttons, menus, and dialogs, while Nativefier uses the browser's native components and Proton Native leverages platform-native UI components, resulting in a more seamless user experience.
5. **Performance**: Electron may have slightly lower performance compared to native applications due to running in a separate process, while Nativefier and Proton Native applications perform better as they are closer to the native code execution on the target platform.
6. **Cross-Platform Development**: Electron, Nativefier, and Proton Native all support cross-platform development, but Electron may require additional configurations for platform-specific functionality, while Nativefier and Proton Native streamline the process with built-in support for platform-specific features.
In Summary, Electron, Nativefier, and Proton Native offer different approaches to building desktop applications, with differences in installation requirements, development languages, bundle sizes, UI components, performance, and cross-platform development capabilities.
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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 Nativefier
- Has a better Javascript support, and is much faster2
Pros of Proton Native
- Full cross plataform3
- Very fast3
- Lightweight2
- React style1
- Is native1
- Code reuse with react native apps0
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Cons of Electron
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Cons of Electron
- Uses a lot of memory19
- 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
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- Low community for the moment1
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What is 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.
What is Nativefier?
Nativefier is a command line tool that allows you to easily create a desktop application for any web site with succinct and minimal configuration. Apps are wrapped by Electron in an OS executable (.app, .exe, etc.) for use on Windows, OSX and Linux.
What is Proton Native?
Create native desktop applications through a React syntax, on all platforms.
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What are some alternatives to Electron, Nativefier, and Proton Native?
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.
React Native Desktop
Build OS X desktop apps using React Native.
React Native
React Native enables you to build world-class application experiences on native platforms using a consistent developer experience based on JavaScript and React. The focus of React Native is on developer efficiency across all the platforms you care about - learn once, write anywhere. Facebook uses React Native in multiple production apps and will continue investing in React Native.
React
Lots of people use React as the V in MVC. Since React makes no assumptions about the rest of your technology stack, it's easy to try it out on a small feature in an existing project.
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.