Comet VS ASP.NET Core

Compare Comet vs ASP.NET Core and see what are their differences.

Comet

Comet is an MVU UIToolkit written in C# (by Clancey)

ASP.NET Core

ASP.NET Core is a cross-platform .NET framework for building modern cloud-based web applications on Windows, Mac, or Linux. (by dotnet)
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Comet ASP.NET Core
22 1,632
1,624 34,312
0.7% 1.6%
3.4 9.9
5 months ago 2 days ago
C# C#
MIT License MIT License
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Comet

Posts with mentions or reviews of Comet. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-06.
  • Ask HN: Write once, run anywhere front ends failed. Thoughts?
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Oct 2023
    > the first, MVP-style, attempt will be using Electron.

    Good choice.

    If you want to stick to HTML...WebView2 is suppose to replace it, but it assumes your backend code is .NET or C++, instead of JS/Node.js. Microsoft Teams is using it.

    If you want to use native Windows UI components from JS code, then React Native for Windows is recommended. Facebook Messenger is using it.

    All approaches require C# or C++ modules to be used to interact with the Windows Platform. Or there is: https://github.com/tjanczuk/edge.

    The recommended approach is WinUI 3 which would involve C#/C++ and XAML.

    To SwiftUI/React/JetPack are called module-view-update (MVU). There is an MVU for C# called Comet. https://github.com/dotnet/Comet#key-concepts

  • Clippy goes full cross-platform thanks to Avalonia UI framework
    5 projects | /r/dotnet | 5 Mar 2023
    The benefit at least with the approach instead of embedding Avalonia inside Maui is you could potentially use non xaml frameworks for ui as long as they support Maui as a target. Stuff like Comet or Blazor mobile bindings would be possible aside from xaml. Especially if they're coming from Blazor web or code based ui frameworks like flutter which makes it appealing.
  • Hot reload with VS Code and iOS
    3 projects | /r/dotnetMAUI | 1 Feb 2023
    That was using the experimental Comet extension and lib, based on .NET MAUI. You can find instructions here: https://github.com/dotnet/Comet
  • Is it possible to make desktop app gui's with just C#?
    4 projects | /r/csharp | 6 Dec 2022
    There are also experimental libraries for .NET MAUI, which let's you create UI only with C#: Comet, MauiReactor
  • What's new in the .NET MAUI Community Toolkit
    1 project | /r/dotnetMAUI | 1 Dec 2022
    The MVU library is called Comet. The lead developer recently left Microsoft but im still seeing commits on the repo which is a good sign!
  • Is .net MAUI appropriate for a bachelor's thesis?
    2 projects | /r/dotnet | 7 Aug 2022
    Yeah the hybrid blazor stuff is interesting. So is https://github.com/dotnet/Comet.
  • XAML or C# code to build UI, which approach is preferred?
    1 project | /r/dotnetMAUI | 12 Jul 2022
    The XAML API is definitely more compact overall which is unfortunate, mostly because a lot of the devs prefer XAML. I've always preferred code-based UI though. Theres some 2ndish/3rd party options with Comet, which changes the UI pattern to MVU and C# Markup, which might not be updated for MAUI yet.
  • Blazor hybrid
    1 project | /r/Blazor | 6 Jun 2022
    All the C# parts for Hybrid (including the components themselves) are running natively. Only the UI part (e.g. html, css) under the Web View is running web tech (html, css) under a native webview of the platform. But you can also add native MAUI controls if you wanted to (either via XAML, or Comet) and mix and match as that webview control that Blazor uses is just a MAUI control.
  • Why is xaml still a thing?
    3 projects | /r/csharp | 15 May 2022
  • Minimalistic fluent api in C# to create complex reactive Avalonia applications
    6 projects | /r/dotnet | 13 May 2022
    There is an alternative using MAUI .Net Comet

ASP.NET Core

Posts with mentions or reviews of ASP.NET Core. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-09.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Comet and ASP.NET Core you can also consider the following projects:

Maui.Markup - The .NET MAUI Markup Community Toolkit is a community-created library that contains Fluent C# Extension Methods to easily create your User Interface in C#

Blazor.WebRTC

Introducing .NET Multi-platform App UI (MAUI) - .NET MAUI is the .NET Multi-platform App UI, a framework for building native device applications spanning mobile, tablet, and desktop.

Uno Platform - Build Mobile, Desktop and WebAssembly apps with C# and XAML. Today. Open source and professionally supported.

deno - A modern runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript.

Avalonia - Develop Desktop, Embedded, Mobile and WebAssembly apps with C# and XAML. The most popular .NET Foundation community project.

inertia-laravel - The Laravel adapter for Inertia.js.

xamarin-forms-samples - Sample apps built using the Xamarin.Forms framework

PuppeteerSharp - Headless Chrome .NET API

Avalonia.Markup.Declarative - Provides helpers for declarative ui in C#

CefSharp - .NET (WPF and Windows Forms) bindings for the Chromium Embedded Framework