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Nativefier vs NodeGUI: What are the differences?

# Introduction
This Markdown code compares the key differences between Nativefier and NodeGUI, two popular frameworks for creating desktop applications using web technologies.

1. **Language**: Nativefier is built using Electron and JavaScript, allowing developers to use their existing web development skills. On the other hand, NodeGUI is built using Node.js and Qt, providing a more native look and feel to applications through direct access to the underlying graphical framework.
2. **Platform Support**: Nativefier primarily targets building applications for macOS, Windows, and Linux, providing a consistent experience across different operating systems. In contrast, NodeGUI focuses on supporting Windows and macOS, making it more limited in terms of platform compatibility.
3. **Size and Performance**: Nativefier applications tend to have larger file sizes due to the Electron framework's overhead, which can impact performance on resource-constrained systems. NodeGUI applications are generally smaller and more lightweight, resulting in better performance for end-users.
4. **Customization and Flexibility**: Nativefier offers extensive customization options through plugins and modules, allowing developers to tailor the application to specific requirements easily. NodeGUI, while providing a more native experience, may have limited customization capabilities compared to Nativefier.
5. **Community and Documentation**: Nativefier has a larger community and extensive documentation, making it easier for developers to find help and resources when building applications. NodeGUI, being a newer framework, may have a smaller community and fewer resources available for troubleshooting and support.
6. **Maintenance and Updates**: Nativefier is actively maintained and regularly updated to address security vulnerabilities and introduce new features, ensuring the longevity and stability of applications built with the framework. NodeGUI, being relatively newer, may have a less mature update cycle and support system in place.

In Summary, the key differences between Nativefier and NodeGUI lie in the choice of underlying technologies, platform support, application size and performance, customization options, community support, and maintenance practices.
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Pros of Nativefier
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    Has a better Javascript support, and is much faster
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    Its not hybrid & fully native.
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    Easy to make cross platform & resource efficient apps
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    Has React & Vue support named (react|vue)-nodegui
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    It uses Qode which is a fork of Node to be used with QT
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    No webkit thus super resource efficient
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    Rich API which binds C++ QT

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Cons of Nativefier
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      Doesn't have x86 support

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    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 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.

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        What are some alternatives to Nativefier and NodeGUI?
        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.
        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.
        Python
        Python is a general purpose programming language created by Guido Van Rossum. Python is most praised for its elegant syntax and readable code, if you are just beginning your programming career python suits you best.
        Node.js
        Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices.
        HTML5
        HTML5 is a core technology markup language of the Internet used for structuring and presenting content for the World Wide Web. As of October 2014 this is the final and complete fifth revision of the HTML standard of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The previous version, HTML 4, was standardised in 1997.
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