NW.js Alternatives

Electron

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. With Electron, creating a desktop application for your company or idea is easy. Initially developed for GitHub's Atom editor, Electron has since been used to create applications by companies like Microsoft, Facebook, Slack, and Docker.

Features:

• Build system
• Cross-platform
• Desktop publishing
• HTML5 Support
• Support for Javascript
• Native application
• Web Development

B4X

Cross platform development tools for native iOS, Android, desktop and server applications. B4X is a Rapid Application Development (RAD) tool for real world apps. The programming language is a modern version of Visual Basic.

Features:

• Code completion
• Multiplatform
• Native Java Libraries
• Rad

Appcelerator Titanium

Appcelerator Titanium, offered for free by Appcelerator, lets web developers use web technologies, open source and cloud computing to build native apps for iPhone, Android, Windows, Mac OSX and Linux.

Features:

• Code completion
• Cross-platform
• Mobile friendly
• Native application
• No coding required
• Python
• Ruby
• Web Development

WebDGap

WebDGap allows you to convert any website or HTML/CSS/JavaScript web application to a native Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome application. WebDGap also gives you the option to export as a Chrome popup extension, and you can export your app or website as a native PhoneGap application making your app available for mobile devices :)

Features:

• Compiler
• Lightweight wrapper

NeutralinoJS

Neutralino is a lightweight application development framework. It lets you develop desktop apps, cloud apps and even browser based apps. Application development with Electron and NWjs requires Nodejs and hundreds of Javascript libraries to be installed and special data files for the bundling will be downloaded at deployment and also the application output is large due to embedded chromium browser and Node runtime.

Features:

• Customizable
• Lightweight

Vuido

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). FEATURES Supports most of the standard Vue.js API Compatible with many Vue.js extensions, for example Vuex. Applications using Vuido can also use all standard Node.js modules and any packages compatible with Node.js.

Proton Native

Proton Native offers a React environment for building native desktop applications. It's sort of like React Native but for desktop apps. FEATURES Same syntax as React Native Works with existing React libraries such as Redux Cross platform Native components

DeskGap

DeskGap is a framework for building cross-platform desktop apps with web technologies (JavaScript, HTML and CSS). To enable native capabilities while keeping the size down, DeskGap bundles a Node.js runtime and leaves the HTML rendering to the operating system‘s webview.

Features:

• Cross-platform
• Desktop app

fman build system

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.

Google Cobalt

Cobalt is a lightweight HTML5/CSS/JS application container that is designed to provide a rich application development environment with minimal resource consumption (deployment size, RAM, CPU, GPU). At the same time, Cobalt enables a rich, low-latency user experience across a wide variety of platforms and devices.