web-to-desktop-framework-comparison

An objective comparison of multiple frameworks that allow us to "transform" our web apps to desktop applications.

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An objective comparison of multiple frameworks that allow us to "transform" our web apps to desktop applications.

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Period	Start (UTC)	End (exclusive, UTC)	Mentions	Submissions	Comments
2022	2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2	0	2
2023	2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	5	1	4
2024	2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
2025	2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	5	0	5
2026 (partial)	2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	0	1

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vindarel·Aug 22, 2022

and https://neutralino.js.org/ Their exciting part is > You can extend Neutralinojs with any programming language (via extensions IPC) and use Neutralinojs as a part of any source file (via child processes IPC). still: > Neutralinojs doesn't bundle Chromium and uses the existing web browser library in the operating system (Eg: gtk-webkit2 on Linux). Neutralinojs implements a WebSocket connection for native operations and embeds a static web server to serve the web content. Comparison with Electron, Tauri and more: https://github.com/Elanis/web-to-desktop-framework-compariso...

In Tauri vs. Electron – Real world application

alexvoda·Feb 7, 2022

> but it uses your system's existing browser According to (1) that is incorrect. It uses WebKitGTK+. (1) https://github.com/Elanis/web-to-desktop-framework-compariso...

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