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Photon vs NodeGUI: What are the differences?

What is Photon? Framework for Electron apps. The fastest way to build beautiful Electron apps using simple HTML and CSS. Underneath it all is Electron. Originally built for GitHub's Atom text editor, Electron is the easiest way to build cross-platform desktop applications.

What is NodeGUI? *A library for building cross-platform native desktop applications *. 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.

Photon and NodeGUI belong to "Cross-Platform Desktop Development" category of the tech stack.

Photon and NodeGUI are both open source tools. It seems that Photon with 9.12K GitHub stars and 528 forks on GitHub has more adoption than NodeGUI with 2.35K GitHub stars and 34 GitHub forks.

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Pros of NodeGUI
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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 NodeGUI
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      Doesn't have x86 support
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      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.

      What is Photon?

      The fastest way to build beautiful Electron apps using simple HTML and CSS. Underneath it all is Electron. Originally built for GitHub's Atom text editor, Electron is the easiest way to build cross-platform desktop applications.

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        What are some alternatives to NodeGUI and Photon?
        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.
        Proton Native
        Create native desktop applications through a React syntax, on all platforms.
        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.
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