Show HN: Svelte NodeGUI, a lightweight Electron alternative with native UI

• sciter-js-sdk

  43 1,632 9.3 Pawn

  Discontinued Sciter.JS - Sciter but with QuickJS on board instead of my TIScript

The license looks ok:

https://github.com/c-smile/sciter-js-sdk/blob/main/LICENSE

The only unusual limitation is that you're not allowed to say "built with Sciter" without getting permission from the maintenaners. You can still use it for commercial projects though.

• svelte-nodegui

  16 2,822 0.0 TypeScript

  Build performant, native and cross-platform desktop applications with native Svelte + powerful CSS-like styling.🚀

  

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• chromium

  224 17,574 10.0

  The official GitHub mirror of the Chromium source

  

Also, Chromium's Blink renderer has a lot of LGPLv2 source files that date back to the KDE KHTML days[1] and as you can see by the numerous proprietary applications that use Electron and Chromium Embedded Framework, that this doesn't hinder companies from using LGPL libraries as long as they abide by the license.

However, one thing to note: the OSS version of Qt uses the LGPLv3 license, which has additional restrictions (like the "Anti-Tivoization" clause) which make it incompatible with the iOS AppStore thus forcing you to use the commercial version of Qt in those situations. Not sure about the Mac and Windows 10 app stores, I am curious if anyone knows/has experience with LGPLv3 and those stores?

[1] https://github.com/chromium/chromium/search?q=%22kde.org%22

• quickjspp

  6 269 0.0 C

  Port of QuickJS Javascript Engine.

I might go a little offtopic here. Any plans to integrate https://github.com/c-smile/quickjspp. That way you can target mobile platforms too. QT supports mobiles well

As for desktop only this is great. Great work. Many people are commenting on NodeGUI only. They have forgotten to mention how Svelte also contribytes to saving memory footprint and cpu cycles over other frameworks with a much easier way to write apps. Add a small learning curve to that.

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