Top 3 desktop-application Open-Source Projects

svelte-nodegui

16 2,822 0.0 TypeScript

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

1 355 6.0 C++

Build cross-platform software with rich native GUIs using the combined power of the PHP language and the wxWidgets library.

Project mention: NativePHP: A framework for building desktop apps with PHP | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-07-22

Wait, this PHP-GTK thing is abandonware! Last release in 2008, and only supports PHP 5.5.
Currently, and for most purposes (especially for new projects), PHP 7 is already being considered old... the amount of work that went into PHP 8 vs. PHP 5 is simply staggering.
PHP 5.5 is just too old to develop against!
The same applies to https://php-qt.org/ which "gives you" Qt 4 on PHP 5.1.
Fortunately enough, for those seeking a GUI toolkit for PHP, there's WxPHP which supports PHP 7 and 8:
https://github.com/wxphp/wxphp
SurveyJS

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Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.
tommybox

4 20 1.8 Java

TommyBox is a single-file executable that makes it possible to launch web apps on a desktop.

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020). The latest post mention was on 2023-07-22.