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Nativefier vs Sciter: What are the differences?
Developers describe Nativefier as "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. On the other hand, Sciter is detailed as "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.
Nativefier and Sciter belong to "Cross-Platform Desktop Development" category of the tech stack.
Nativefier is an open source tool with 20.6K GitHub stars and 1.2K 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 Sciter
- Good for commercial projects4
- Cross platform apps4
- Faster than ElectronJS4
- Small bundle size4
- Use C++ API4
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Cons of Nativefier
Cons of Sciter
- Ultralight si lo es,aunque hay módulos comerciales2
- No es open source1
- Close source project1
- Less/bad documentation1
- Doesn't support Javascript1