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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.
Pros of NodeGUI
- Its not hybrid & fully native.1
- Easy to make cross platform & resource efficient apps1
- Has React & Vue support named (react|vue)-nodegui1
- It uses Qode which is a fork of Node to be used with QT1
- No webkit thus super resource efficient1
- Rich API which binds C++ QT1
Pros of Photon
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Cons of NodeGUI
- Doesn't have x86 support1