Element vs Hazel

Overview

Element

Stacks89

Followers92

Votes3

GitHub Stars54.2K

Forks14.6K

Hazel

Stacks18

Followers23

Votes0

Element vs Hazel: What are the differences?

What is Element? A Vue 2.0-based desktop UI library for developers, designers and PMs. Element is a Vue 2.0 based component library for developers, designers and product managers, with a set of design resources.

What is Hazel? Lighweight update server for Electron apps. This project lets you deploy an update server for Electron apps with ease: You only need to run a single command and fill out two text fields.

Element and Hazel belong to "Cross-Platform Desktop Development" category of the tech stack.

Element and Hazel are both open source tools. Element with 39K GitHub stars and 8.17K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Hazel with 2.16K GitHub stars and 119 GitHub forks.

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Detailed Comparison

Element	Hazel
Element is a Vue 2.0 based component library for developers, designers and product managers, with a set of design resources.	This project lets you deploy an update server for Electron apps with ease: You only need to run a single command and fill out two text fields.
Statistics
GitHub Stars 54.2K	GitHub Stars -
GitHub Forks 14.6K	GitHub Forks -
Stacks 89	Stacks 18
Followers 92	Followers 23
Votes 3	Votes 0
Pros & Cons
Pros 3 Very complete solution Cons 2 Buggy in parts	No community feedback yet
Integrations
Vue.js	Electron

What are some alternatives to Element, Hazel?

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.

Sciter

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.

wxWidgets

It is a C++ library that lets developers create applications for Windows, macOS, Linux and other platforms with a single code base. It has popular language bindings for Python, Perl, Ruby and many other languages, and unlike other cross-platform toolkits, it gives applications a truly native look and feel because it uses the platform's native API rather than emulating the GUI. It's also extensive, free, open-source and mature.

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.

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.

React Native Desktop

Build OS X desktop apps using React Native.

JUCE

It is a C++ framework for low-latency applications, with cross-platform GUI libraries to get your apps running on Mac OS X, Windows, Linux, iOS and Android.

Proton Native

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

NodeGUI

It is an open source library for building cross-platform native desktop applications with JavaScript and CSS like styling. It is based on Qt5 and NOT chromium, hence it is memory and cpu efficient.

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.