electron VS v8js

Compare electron vs v8js 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)

v8js

V8 Javascript Engine for PHP — This PHP extension embeds the Google V8 Javascript Engine (by phpv8)
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electron v8js
3 2
91,079 1,813
- 0.3%
9.9 2.7
about 3 years ago 2 months ago
C++ C++
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.

v8js

Posts with mentions or reviews of v8js. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-30.
  • Automerge 2.0
    11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Jan 2023
    You’re right, there doesn’t seem to be a PHP SDK yet. This is unholy, but perhaps you could execute it in a node environment with v8js. https://github.com/phpv8/v8js

    Otherwise I think you’d be looking at a headless browser in the test runner.

  • Svelte & Amphp
    4 projects | /r/sveltejs | 21 Jun 2022
    There seems to be some recent activity for 8.0 but no proper release yet.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing electron and v8js you can also consider the following projects:

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

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

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

pdjs - JavaScript External for Pure Data based on V8

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

JSinfinity - let's compete nodejs (do all with javascript)

c1-launcher - Open-source Crysis executables.

catpaw - An opinionated dependency injection library for amphp.

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

catpaw-svelte-starter - Starter template for catpaw-core using a Svelte stateful SPA