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Nativefier vs Qt5: What are the differences?
What is Nativefier? Wrap any web page natively without even thinking, across Windows, OSX and Linux. 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 Qt5? *A free and open-source widget toolkit *. It is a full development framework with tools designed to streamline the creation of applications and user interfaces for desktop, embedded, and mobile platforms.
Nativefier and Qt5 can be primarily classified as "Cross-Platform Desktop Development" tools.
Nativefier is an open source tool with 20.3K GitHub stars and 1.18K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Nativefier's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of Nativefier
- Has a better Javascript support, and is much faster2
Pros of Qt5
- Easy to learn and use2
- Cross platform2
- Open source2
- C++2
- Very good documentation2
- Fast enough2