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Electron vs Sciter: 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 Sciter? An HTML/CSS/scripting engine designed to render modern desktop application UI. It brings a stack of web technologies to desktop UI development. Web designers, and developers, can reuse their experience and expertise in creating modern looking desktop applications.
Electron and Sciter can be primarily classified as "Cross-Platform Desktop Development" tools.
Some of the features offered by Electron are:
- Use HTML, CSS, and JavaScript with Chromium and Node.js to build your app.
- Electron is open source
- maintained by GitHub and an active community.
On the other hand, Sciter provides the following key features:
- Cross platform
- Embeddable
- Flexible
Electron is an open source tool with 76.7K GitHub stars and 10.1K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Electron's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of Electron
- Easy to make rich cross platform desktop applications66
- Open source51
- Great looking apps such as Slack and Visual Studio Code13
- Because it's cross platform7
- Use Node.js in the Main Process3
Pros of Sciter
- Good for commercial projects4
- Cross platform apps4
- Faster than ElectronJS4
- Small bundle size4
- Use C++ API4
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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 Sciter
- No es open source1
- Ultralight si lo es,aunque hay módulos comerciales1
- Close source project1
- Less/bad documentation1
- Doesn't support Javascript1
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