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24 alternatives to Electrico – Electron Without Node and Chrome

A Lightweight Electron App Container. Contribute to thomastschurtschenthaler/electrico development by creating an account on GitHub.

Electrico is a framework for building desktop applications without requiring Node.js or Chrome dependencies. Launched in September 2024, it targets developers who want to create cross-platform applications with reduced… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Electrico – Electron Without Node and Chrome launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1
   Electron 1.0▲647

   Build cross platform desktop apps

   2016 · electronjs.org · its alternatives →

2. 2
   Electrino, a featherweight API-compatible alternative to Electron▲99

   Desktop runtime for apps built on web technologies, using the system's own web browser engine - pojala/electrino

   2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   Chromely – Lightweight Alternative to Electron for .NET and .NET Core▲143

   Build Cross Platform HTML Desktop Apps on .NET using native GUI, HTML5, JavaScript, CSS, Owin, AspNetCore (MVC, RazorPages, Blazor) - chromelyapps/Chromely

   2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   Svelte NodeGUI, a lightweight Electron alternative with native UI▲624

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

   2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   Windows 95 in an Electron App▲213

   Windows 95 in an app. Runs on macOS, Linux, and Windows. - felixrieseberg/windows95

   2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   ToDesktop 2.0▲380

   All in one platform for building and releasing desktop apps

   2020 · todesktop.com · its alternatives →

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   Electron Toolkit▲298

   Toolkit to build and launch Electron apps

   2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   Unubo 2.0▲324

   Simplest way to deploy your web apps, APIs and databases

   2019 · unubo.com · its alternatives →

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   Vuido builds desktop apps using Vue.js without Electron▲192

   Your friendly JavaScript framework

   2018 · forum.vuejs.org · its alternatives →

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    DeskGap – Like Electron, but uses the system webview▲318

    2019 · deskgap.com · its alternatives →

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    Ionic Platform▲288

    Build, deploy, and scale hybrid apps, the easy way

    2016 · ionic.io · its alternatives →

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    Jolteon – Babel/Electron/React/Browserify/Sass application stack▲65

    :bulb: Babel + Electron + React + Browserify + SASS application stack. Electron Made Easy :tm: - fluffgfx/jolteon

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    YouTube-DL GUI Powered by Electron▲142

    A video and channel downloader that supports 110 websites, powered by Electron and youtube-dl - mayeaux/videodownloader

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    The Hanselminutes Podcast - Creating cross-platform Electron apps with Jessica Lord▲64

    Is Electron "just Chrome in a frame" or is it so much more?

    2016 · hanselminutes.com · its alternatives →

15. 15
    Electron Fiddle▲247

    Create, run, package, and share experiments with Electron.

    2018 · medium.com · its alternatives →

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    Chromiumoxid – An Async Headless Chrome API in Rust▲127

    Chrome Devtools Protocol rust API. Contribute to mattsse/chromiumoxide development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Task-Based Electron Web Browser▲148

    A web browser for the power user. Forget the browser window full of unsorted, jammed tabs. Alloy is built up on Tasks, of which every has its own Tablist. You only see the relevant Tabs for your current Task.

    2016 · alloy.simoncaminada.ch · its alternatives →

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    minekitten.io▲151

    Mining Electroneum, made easy!

    2017 · vrtui.io · its alternatives →

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    An easier way to deploy web apps in node, ruby, python, and go▲27

    Unubo makes it easy for you to track progress by bringing metrics from your favourite tools into one place.

    2019 · unubo.com · its alternatives →

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    Eel – a simple Python library for making little HTML GUI applications▲201

    A little Python library for making simple Electron-like HTML/JS GUI apps - python-eel/Eel

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Electron App Store▲82

    A cross platform, open source app store for Electron.js apps

    2021 · its alternatives →

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    browserless.io▲143

    The full-code, no-ops tool for browser automation

    2023 · browserless.io · its alternatives →

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    Chromely – Lightweight Alternative to Electron for .NET and .NET Core▲16

    This is introducing Chromely. Chromely is a lightweight .NET/.NET Core HTML5 Chromium desktop framework alternative to Electron.NET, Electron for .NET/.NET Core developers. Chromely builds HTML5 desktops without WinForms or WPF. Chromely is based on CEF's Xilium.CefGlue and CefSharp using thin Windows and Linux native GUI API as chromium hosts. With Chromely, you can build SPA's HTML5 desktop apps- using Angular, React, Vue or similar - without Node/NPM. For more info please go to - https://github.com/mattkol/Chromely

    2018 · its alternatives →

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    Sciter and Node.js versus Electron▲22

    2018 · terrainformatica.com · its alternatives →

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