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proton-native
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kusti8 / proton-native

proton-native

A React environment for cross platform desktop apps

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What it is

A React environment for cross platform desktop apps

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

For a JavaScript alternative to pyQT I recommend proton-native[1] - a React environment for cross platform native desktop apps. 1: https://github.com/kusti8/proton-native

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Mentioned in the same Hacker News threads. That is not proof they are substitutes.

This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by month9 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2018-02-14 23:48:44 UTC to 2019-11-22 20:31:57 UTC.

01232018-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 2 submissions, 0 commentsFeb 20182018-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2018-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 1 submissions, 2 comments2018-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2018-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsDec 20182019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2019-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsNov 2019

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
Feb 20182018-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-03-01 00:00:00 UTC220
Mar 20182018-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-04-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 20182018-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-05-01 00:00:00 UTC101
May 20182018-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-06-01 00:00:00 UTC312
Jun 20182018-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-07-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 20182018-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-08-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 20182018-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-09-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 20182018-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-10-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Oct 20182018-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-11-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 20182018-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-12-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 20182018-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-02-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Feb 20192019-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-03-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 20192019-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-04-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 20192019-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-05-01 00:00:00 UTC000
May 20192019-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-06-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 20192019-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-07-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 20192019-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-08-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 20192019-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-09-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 20192019-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-10-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 20192019-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-11-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 20192019-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-12-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

9 sources
roboguy12·Jan 25, 2019
If anyone is interested in a similar idea, but using javascript (or React), this reminded me of a project I heard of a while ago: https://github.com/parro-it/libui-node. It's built on top of https://github.com/andlabs/libui, "a portable GUI library for C" and it powers a truly native React Native for desktop: https://github.com/kusti8/proton-native. Disclaimer, I've only ever dabbled in these projects and cannot attest to the quality, package size, speed, etc. Just figured I'd share
In Revery – Native, high-performance, cross-platform desktop apps
lioeters·Apr 10, 2018
Perhaps the author of Yue has different opinions than the team working on Xray? It seems that there's duplicated effort among projects like xray, yue, libui-node/proton-native. Still, I'm glad to see people trying to solve this problem area of cross-platform apps, taking the Electron paradigm to the next level of efficiency. https://github.com/atom/xray https://github.com/yue/yue https://github.com/parro-it/libui-node https://github.com/kusti8/proton-native
In Show HN: Wey – A fast, open-source Slack desktop app

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