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Life & fun · December 23, 2018

Sciter and Node.js versus Electron

Sciter and Node.js versus Electron launched on December 23, 2018 with 22 votes, #659 of 2,148 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 7 years on.

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In plain words

Sciter and Node.js versus Electron is a technical comparison resource launched in 2018 that examines different approaches to building cross-platform desktop applications. It evaluates Sciter, Node.js, and Electron as alternatives for developers considering which framework best suits their project needs. The resource is designed for software developers and architects evaluating desktop application development tools and methodologies.

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From the sources

As we know Electron.js is built of Chromium and Node.js. Where Chromium is a full scale Web browser that even uses its own, independent JavaScript engine. Therefore each Electron.js application is essentially a separate Web browser and Web server installed on your machine – as many Electron applications you are running – as many browsers and servers you have in your RAM. Yet each Electron application runs at least three separate processes on your machine. To answer this I’ve created very basic Sciter as NodeJs native module . In order to get some stats I’ve compared Microsoft Visual Code, as typical Electron.Js application, with the “IDE” sample from…from terrainformatica.com

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