web-to-desktop-framework-comparison VS neutralinojs

This comparison might be useful to you https://github.com/Elanis/web-to-desktop-framework-comparison

I looked into some alternatives a while back [1] and thought Neutralino looked promising except that it doesn't support node modules. I.e. you cannot use the existing ecosystem of node-stuff.

Still, glad there are many options for using web UI to create desktop apps these days.

[1]: Neutralino themselves link to this nice comparison table: https://github.com/Elanis/web-to-desktop-framework-compariso...

"Web to Desktop" framework comparison: This repository was made to create an objective comparison of multiple framework that grant us to "transform" our web app to desktop application formats.

Electron lets you make you simple desktop apps using html and javascript, but you might get memed for hogging up too much memory. There are other solutions that seem to be better, but I haven’t tried them. Here is a comparison I found online

As a fullstack dev, I did try electron. but I am not Microsoft and my app was not as optimized as vscode can be. If you wan to keep using html, you may want to look into tauri or neutralinojs (among others)

> but it uses your system's existing browser

According to (1) that is incorrect. It uses WebKitGTK+.

(1) https://github.com/Elanis/web-to-desktop-framework-compariso...

Resources: Neutralino JS vs Electron vs Tauri vs NW.js vs NodeGui vs Flutter vs .net MAUI Neutralino JS Website Neutralino JS GitHub

From their page...

- https://github.com/neutralinojs/neutralinojs/issues/1115

They aren't much, but I think they are at least proof that I can do work, much better indicator than my anemic resume. Though my pull requests looks trivial, I spent several days tracking down the root cause of the bug.

I've been eyeing https://neutralino.js.org/ since if I'm going to make the app render right on browsers then relying on the same code via webviews likely isn't (much) more portability effort.

We tried using pywebview for a cross-platform desktop app when it was version 3.x and some of the features were limited, especially when it came to systray interactions. Will have to try it out again. In the end, for that specific project, we ended up settling on NeutralinoJS. Wails was another big contender but due to limited GoLang resources in-house, we decided not to use it. Reference: https://neutralino.js.org/

Look into Neutralinojs and Tauri.

I've been drawn to NeutralinoJS as it looks like it will do what I want, but I'm willing to hear some other recommendations and maybe tutorials on how to do the objectively simple things I've outlined above.