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Proton Native vs NodeGUI: What are the differences?

Developers describe Proton Native as "A React environment for cross platform native desktop app". Create native desktop applications through a React syntax, on all platforms. On the other hand, NodeGUI is detailed as "*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.

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

Some of the features offered by Proton Native are:

  • Same syntax as React Native
  • Works with existing React libraries such as Redux
  • Cross platform

On the other hand, NodeGUI provides the following key features:

  • Cross platform
  • Low CPU and memory footprint
  • Styling with CSS

Proton Native and NodeGUI are both open source tools. Proton Native with 9.26K GitHub stars and 284 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than NodeGUI with 2.35K GitHub stars and 34 GitHub forks.

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Pros of NodeGUI
Pros of Proton Native
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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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    Full cross plataform
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    Very fast
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    Lightweight
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    React style
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    Is native
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    Code reuse with react native apps

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Cons of NodeGUI
Cons of Proton Native
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    Doesn't have x86 support
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    Low community for the moment

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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 Proton Native?

Create native desktop applications through a React syntax, on all platforms.

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    What are some alternatives to NodeGUI and Proton Native?
    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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