React Desktop Alternatives

If you can build a website, you can build a desktop app. Electron is a framework for creating native applications with web technologies like JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. It takes care of the hard parts so you can focus on the core of your application.

Node.js bridge to Webkit – package and distribute webapps on all platforms.

Proton Native offers a React environment for building native desktop applications. It's sort of like React Native but for desktop apps.

WebDGap allows you to convert any website or HTML/CSS/JavaScript web application to a native Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome application.

Vuido leverages the simplicity of Vue.js along with the open-source libui library to let you create lightweight, native desktop application. Applications can run cross-platform using native GUI components (different from Electron-based desktop web apps).

A framework for creating desktop apps for Windows, Mac and Linux. Based on Qt and Python, it is a lightweight alternative to Electron. Unlike other solutions, fbs makes packaging easy: Create an installer for your app in seconds and start distributing it to your users.

Chromely is a lightweight alternative to Electron.NET, Electron for .NET/.NET Core developers.

azula is a lightweight alternative to Electron. It is based on Ultralight, which is an embedding friendly Fork of WebKit, with less memory usage and low disk space requirements.

DeskGap is a framework for building cross-platform desktop apps with web technologies (JavaScript, HTML and CSS).

Photino is a lightweight open-source framework for building native, cross-platform desktop applications with Web UI technology.