react-nodegui VS awesome-electron-alternatives

In fact, there's a version with a React wrapper, pretty much similar to React Native

If you are strictly looking to make a desktop app, I would suggest looking at https://react.nodegui.org/ it is really easy to use and develop.

I have to use Discord and Element on a regular basis (which both use Electron). They both use an unreasonable amount of RAM, and I feel this even more as my laptop is quite old and has 4GB of RAM.

I keep looking for alternatives to Electron, which wouldn't require such heavy resources to run, but my searches always seem to come up short. There are a number of solutions that are either dead or are not ready for production yet, such as React NodeGUI[0], Proton Native[1] or react-native-desktop-qt[2].

There's react-native-windows, but I'm not running Windows, and even if that did gain Linux compatibility it seems that they're quite focused on Microsoft-owned platforms.

Is "just stick Chromium into all your apps" seriously the best we can do as an industry? It's resource-inefficient to high heaven, not to mention that it's slow and doesn't integrate with the native platform styles at all. As a JavaScript developer, I'm quite surprised this is the best there is for cross-platform JavaScript development.

[0]: https://github.com/nodegui/react-nodegui

React NodeGUI is slowly gaining popularity for bringing react directly to the desktop development experience, powered by Qt5.

Also, for React desktop apps, have a look on React NodeGUI, you will notice Qt 😉

On the React and Vue github repos the README contains this disclaimer:

I was going to name this piece by piece or the building blocks of, but I want that sweet, sweet SEO. In my last post I kind of brushed on NodeGUI and one of the negatives I listed was it was a bit light on examples so I since decided to remedy that by contributing to the project here and here thus far. I also got involved with the Vue version of NodeGUI, it’s not as polished or production ready as the react one yet but I hope to help with that.

Was gonna say, not worth using Electron anymore when there are better alternatives out there.

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.

I cannot vouch for any of these, but that particular space (electron-likes) is already pretty crowded: https://github.com/sudhakar3697/electron-alternatives

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

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

Bunch of options here https://github.com/sudhakar3697/electron-alternatives