electron VS Atom

Compare electron vs Atom and see what are their differences.

electron

:electron: Build cross-platform desktop apps with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS [Moved to: https://github.com/electron/electron] (by atom)

Atom

:atom: The hackable text editor (by atom)
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electron Atom
3 284
91,079 58,803
- -
9.9 8.1
about 3 years ago over 1 year ago
C++ JavaScript
MIT License MIT License
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electron

Posts with mentions or reviews of electron. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-05-06.
  • Uncaught Error: Cannot find module 'jquery'
    2 projects | /r/codehunter | 6 May 2022
    I am using Electron to make a desktop app. In my app I am loading a an external site (outside Atom app) lets say http://mydummysite/index.html page.
  • What is the Client/Server model when using Electron (Atom Shell)?
    2 projects | /r/codehunter | 22 Apr 2022
    I'm trying to wrap my head around how Electron (formerly Atom Shell) works.
  • Can't seem to build anything in Strawberry
    1 project | /r/perl | 1 Apr 2021
    Building and testing Alien-Electron-0.201 Downloading https://github.com/atom/electron/releases/download/v2.0.17/electron-v2.0.17-win32-x64.zip (be patient) 'wget' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. 'curl' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. unable to find download program, please install wget or curl at ElectronModuleBuild.pm line 86. -> FAIL Installing Alien::Electron failed. See C:\Users\bit\.cpanm\work\1617287084.23348\build.log for details. Retry with --force to force install it.

Atom

Posts with mentions or reviews of Atom. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-21.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing electron and Atom you can also consider the following projects:

phpdesktop - Develop desktop GUI applications using PHP, HTML5, JavaScript and SQLite

Visual Studio Code - Visual Studio Code

neutralinojs - Portable and lightweight cross-platform desktop application development framework

Geany - A fast and lightweight IDE

obs-studio-node - libOBS (OBS Studio) for Node.Js, Electron and similar tools

vscodium - binary releases of VS Code without MS branding/telemetry/licensing

c1-launcher - Open-source Crysis executables.

Spyder - Official repository for Spyder - The Scientific Python Development Environment

Electron - :electron: Build cross-platform desktop apps with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS

notepad-plus-plus - Notepad++ official repository

puerts - PUER(普洱) Typescript. Let's write your game in UE or Unity with TypeScript.

KDevelop - Cross-platform IDE for C, C++, Python, QML/JavaScript and PHP