awesome-electron-alternatives
Avalonia
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awesome-electron-alternatives
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CustomTkinter is an easy to use desktop UI library based on Tkinter
Was gonna say, not worth using Electron anymore when there are better alternatives out there.
- Suggestions for a cross platform IDE-style application
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Svelte + Vite + Electron
Maybe it’s time to ditch electron? I’ve heard good things about tauri but unfortunately never used it. There’s a list with electron alternatives on GH.
- How do you create a cross-platform GUI without using Electron?
- I Made a standalone version of DIM, No Browser Required
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Why not always statically link with musl?
I cannot vouch for any of these, but that particular space (electron-likes) is already pretty crowded: https://github.com/sudhakar3697/electron-alternatives
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[AskJS] What the options for desktop apps to write JS? Interested in all OSes. Looking into all my options. Thanks.
Might also be interesting to look into Electron alternatives which often have a much smaller footprint and better performance: https://github.com/sudhakar3697/electron-alternatives
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Bloated Microsoft Teams
You can make them less resource-intensive, but that takes intense amounts of optimization, I.e look what they do with VS Code. That said, there are more lightweight alternatives to electron
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What are some options for creating desktop applications in Vue or Nuxt
Bunch of options here https://github.com/sudhakar3697/electron-alternatives
Avalonia
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The search for easier safe systems programming
WPF is not the best example of open source, as some components are still closed source. Though it only runs on Windows, a closed source operating system, so perhaps that is not so important.
https://github.com/dotnet/wpf/issues/2554
That said, there are cross platform, open source .NET UI frameworks out there, including one that is inspired by WPF:
https://avaloniaui.net/
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Industrial Controller? Windows or Linux?
You might also want to look at AvaloniaUI[0] for a cross platform .NET GUI library. It is similar to WPF but much nicer to work with.
[0] https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia
- Avalonia – Farewell to the .NET Foundation
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AvaloniaUI: Create Multi-Platform Apps with .NET
Production user here. There's no money gotchas. They're above reproach. In fact, I've received considerable free support from their devs on GitHub Issues [1].
The Avalonia business model is based on selling XPF, which runs WPF (Windows-only) apps on other platforms. That's very interesting to big corps with existing codebases.
See my comment [2]
[1] https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia/issues
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39246988#39249128
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.NET on Linux: What a Contrast
Yes, but the portable GUI frameworks by Microsoft themselves are generally not very good, and they tend to be abandoned after a couple of years.
Avalonia is developed outside of the Microsoft corporate madness and seems to be slowly becoming the defacto cross-platform framework because it is expected to last a bit longer than a manager's attention span: https://avaloniaui.net/
- Too many Mac apps are being built with Electron
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Ask HN: Do you have a problem you'd pay to have taken away?
Not my comment, but relevant here "The problem with compiling Skia to WASM is you'll lose any benefits of hardware graphics acceleration on the device."
(From https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia/discussions/6831#disc... )
- Dezvoltare aplicatie desktop
- Ask HN: How to create web, mobile, and desktop apps from a single code base?
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.NET 8 – .NET Blog
It's a bit of a hit and miss as of today. CLI, back-end and natively compiled libraries (think dll/so/dylib or even .lib/.a - you can statically link NAOT binaries into other "unmanaged" code) work best, GUI - requires more work.
Avalonia[0] and MAUI[1] have known working templates with it, but YMMV.
[0] https://github.com/lixinyang123/AvaloniaAOT / https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia/ / honorable mention https://github.com/VincentH-Net/CSharpForMarkup
[1] https://github.com/dotnet/maui (try out with just true in csproj - it is known to work e.g. on iOS)
What are some alternatives?
react-nodegui - Build performant, native and cross-platform desktop applications with native React + powerful CSS like styling.🚀
Uno Platform - Build Mobile, Desktop and WebAssembly apps with C# and XAML. Today. Open source and professionally supported.
nodegui - A library for building cross-platform native desktop applications with Node.js and CSS 🚀. React NodeGui : https://react.nodegui.org and Vue NodeGui: https://vue.nodegui.org
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.
tauri - Build smaller, faster, and more secure desktop applications with a web frontend.
WPF - WPF is a .NET Core UI framework for building Windows desktop applications.
vue-nodegui - Build performant, native and cross-platform desktop applications with native Vue + powerful CSS like styling.🚀
Eto.Forms - Cross platform GUI framework for desktop and mobile applications in .NET
sciter - Sciter: the Embeddable HTML/CSS/JS engine for modern UI development
MahApps.Metro - A framework that allows developers to cobble together a better UI for their own WPF applications with minimal effort.
fyne - Cross platform GUI toolkit in Go inspired by Material Design
Gtk# - Gtk# is a Mono/.NET binding to the cross platform Gtk+ GUI toolkit and the foundation of most GUI apps built with Mono