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Element vs MacGap: 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 MacGap? Desktop WebKit wrapper for HTML/CSS/JS applications. MacGap provides HTML/JS/CSS developers an Xcode project for developing native OS X App. These Apps run in OS X's WebView and take advantage of WebKit technologies. MacGap exposes a JavaScript API for OS X integration, such as displaying native notifications or writing data to a file. MacGap is extremely lightweight and nimble; a blank application weighs less than 1MB.

Element and MacGap can be categorized as "Cross-Platform Desktop Development" tools.

Element and MacGap are both open source tools. Element with 39K GitHub stars and 8.17K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than MacGap with 3.59K GitHub stars and 226 GitHub forks.

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Pros of Element
Pros of MacGap
  • 3
    Very complete solution
  • 3
    Remember that Mac app you always wanted to create... ?

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Cons of Element
Cons of MacGap
  • 2
    Buggy in parts
  • 2
    Only for Mac

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What is Element?

Element is a Vue 2.0 based component library for developers, designers and product managers, with a set of design resources.

What is MacGap?

MacGap provides HTML/JS/CSS developers an Xcode project for developing native OS X App. These Apps run in OS X's WebView and take advantage of WebKit technologies. MacGap exposes a JavaScript API for OS X integration, such as displaying native notifications or writing data to a file. MacGap is extremely lightweight and nimble; a blank application weighs less than 1MB.

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