Photino

lastmod 2021-03-19created 2021-03-191 edits

A lightweight cross-platform desktop app framework.

Features

• Lightweight native app development using a Web UI (Blazor/React/Angular/Vue, etc.)
• Uses WebWindow, a cross-platform webview library, making it similar to Electron without Chromium/Node.js
  • App size is about 1/10 to 1/100 that of Electron
  • On Windows, Webview2 of Chrome-based Edge,
  • on Mac, the OS built-in WKWebView,
  • on Linux, WebKitGTK+2 is used
• Targets .NET by default, but can also be developed with C++/Go/Rust, etc.

See also

• Electron
• NodeGui
• WebWindow - A cross-platform webview library for .NET Core

Favorite site

• Photino web site