react-native-macos VS graderjs

Compare react-native-macos vs graderjs and see what are their differences.

react-native-macos

A framework for building native macOS apps with React. (by microsoft)

graderjs

💦 Turn your full-stack NodeJS application into a downloadable cross-platform binary. Also works for SPAs, or regular web-sites. (by dosyago)
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react-native-macos graderjs
13 10
3,198 155
2.1% 1.3%
0.0 0.0
6 days ago over 1 year ago
Java Shell
MIT License GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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react-native-macos

Posts with mentions or reviews of react-native-macos. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-16.

graderjs

Posts with mentions or reviews of graderjs. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-01.
  • Use any web browser as GUI, with Zig in the back end and HTML5 in the front end
    17 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Jan 2024
    This is very polished and cool looking. Inspiring. I find this project's level of polish very inspiring.

    It's lovely to see someone has captured this idea and expressed it in the right way to make it interesting to many people. I really hope this mode of desktop apps can take off, at least to the level where the community has something to explore for a while to see if it works. I made something like this for Chrome browsers a while ago, nodejs backends, vanilla front-ends, built-in packaging using pkg. It's just a nice approach: https://github.com/dosyago/graderjs

    And I made a demo using the venerable MS Paint clone JS Paint^0. The dev experience was great, I literally just dropped in the front-end code to the right folder, compiled it and wham, "desktop JS paint" on 3 platforms, haha.

    Using the ubiquitous local browser as the rendering / API engine for desktop just seems smart. And it's technically interesting, because you get to think in terms of how can you step back from the browser, the platform, the front-end and the back-end and come up with a general API that addresses all of it, which is kinda cool.

    0: https://github.com/00000o1/jspaint.exe

  • Ask HN: What is your preferred light weight stack for personal projects?
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Dec 2022
    Client / Server Web App: Node.JS, Bang.html[0], the filesystem

    Native downloadable executable desktop GUI application: Node.JS, GraderJS

    CLI app: ??? Don't know yet, GraderJS can work but it's focused around GUI

    Mobile app: ??? Don't know yet

    Embedded: ??? Don't know yet

    Graphics: Processing (but surely there are much better options nowadays)

    AI: ??? Don't know yet

    [0]: https://github.com/crisdosyago/bang.html/

    [1]: https://github.com/crisdosyago/graderjs/

  • Ask HN: Why aren't there any real alternatives to Electron?
    11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Mar 2022
    I'm working on an alternative. It's a slightly different take, but provides similar functionality of Node.js plus front end code in a packaged binary. Instead of using a weird custom fork of chrome and downloading that for every different binary we just use the system Chrome browser (or install it once for all apps). Eventually we can probably expand to use other Chrome browsers or even other web driver supported browsers which Firefox seems to be building that support out. I just like the idea of using something that's already on the system.

    Take a look at the wonderful GraderJS, heh :)

    https://github.com/crisdosyago/graderjs

  • Jspaint.exe: JavaScript Paint –~ as a cross-platform native desktop app
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Sep 2021
    For those who didn't reach the end of the README.md, it seems to use an electron-alternative called grader, from the same author:

    https://github.com/i5ik/graderjs

    It runs server and downloads Chrome (if not available already) and starts it in app mode.

  • Tauri: An Electron alternative written in Rust
    23 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Feb 2021
    It is a good idea but it is not a new idea

    the interesting history of these sorts of frameworks is that Google actually created a framework that did this and stopped development on it. the code is still on GitHub. And there's a bunch of other frameworks that use a variety of different languages not just rust as the application language that also have this idea of not bundling chromium but instead using the system webview for rendering HTML and JavaScript.

    You can find a bunch of different approaches in lists like "alternatives to electron." There's some on GitHub.

    I took a slightly different approach where instead of using the system web view which I thought you know is going to be inconsistent across systems and it's not going to support the latest HTML JavaScript and security features I used the assumption that the user already has chrome installed which works in a high number of cases or can download and install it if that's not the case. predictably I suppose some people express to satisfaction that it was not using Firefox. using Firefox becomes more possible and more likely I suppose as firefox's support for the dev tools protocol achieves parity with chrome support for that.

    https://github.com/c9fe/graderjs

What are some alternatives?

When comparing react-native-macos and graderjs you can also consider the following projects:

tauri - Build smaller, faster, and more secure desktop applications with a web frontend.

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

revery - :zap: Native, high-performance, cross-platform desktop apps - built with Reason!

Wails - Create beautiful applications using Go

react-pdf - 📄 Create PDF files using React

jspaint - 🎨 Classic MS Paint, REVIVED + ✨Extras

DeskGap - A cross-platform desktop app framework based on Node.js and the system webview

wry - Cross-platform WebView library in Rust for Tauri.

redocx - 📄 Create word documents with React

react-native-web-monorepo - Code sharing between iOS, Android & Web using monorepo

Godello - Trello inspired kanban board made with the Godot Engine and GDScript, with a real-time collaborative backend (Elixir and Phoenix Channels) and a local backend for offline usage (Godot Custom Resources)