Top 15 Electron / Atom Shell Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

Atom Shell is now called Electron. You can learn more about Electron and what people are building with it at its new home electron.atom.io.

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.

1. Appcelerator Titanium

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.......

2. nativeCSS

nativeCSS nativeCSS is a free framework to make app development easier.Use CSS styling in your apps today.......

3. Node.js

Node.js Node.js is a platform built on Chrome's JavaScript runtime for easily building fast, scalable network applications. Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices.......

4. io.js

io.js io.js is a JavaScript platform built on Chrome's V8 runtime. This project began as a fork of Joyent's Node.js and is compatible with the npm ecosystem.io.js aims to provide faster and predictable release cycles. It currently merges in the latest language, API and performance improvements to V8 while also updating......

5. flatiron

flatiron flatiron is an adaptable framework for building modern web applications. It was built from the ground up for use with Javascript and Node.js.......

6. Espresso Framework

Espresso Framework Scalable Web Framework aimed at Speed and Simplicity......

7. DOMtastic

DOMtastic Small & fast DOM and event library for modern browsers. Having the same familiar API as jQuery (but without the extra "weight" of modules like $.ajax, $.animate, and $.Deferred), it works great stand-alone or paired up with e.g. Backbone. The full version is only 7KB minified (2KB gzip), but it's......

8. App.js - kik

App.js - kik App.js is a lightweight JavaScript UI library for creating mobile webapps that behave like native apps, sacrificing neither performance nor polish.Cross Platform. Native transitions and more on Android 2.2+ & iOS 4.3+Widgets & Custom Themes. Make it look exactly how you want in minutesStack Management. Navigate your pages and views......

9. convertigo

convertigo Convertigo is the most advanced Open Source Mobile Application Development Platform for Enterprises, featuring all the required components needed to develop and to run cross-platform mobile enterprises application connected to enterprise's back-end business applications.......

10. Famo.us

Famo.us Famo.us is a JavaScript framework that lets you build beautiful apps and sites for iOS, Android, Kindle, and web.......

11. Mimosa

Mimosa A lightning-fast build tool for modern web development. Mimosa includes support for JavaScript, CSS, and template compilers, bower, linting, optimization, serving, RequireJS support, and Live Reload. It is also modular and pluggable for authoring your own functionality.......

12. Nombo

Nombo Nombo is an Open Source Node.js framework that allows you to easily build Rich Cloud Applications.......

13. Play!

Play! Play is a web application framework, written in Scala and Java, which follows the model–view–controller (MVC) architectural pattern. The Play framework makes it easier to build web applications withJava & Scala.Play is based on a lightweight, stateless, web-friendly architecture and features predictable and minimal resource consumption (CPU, memory, threads) for......

14. COKE JS

COKE JS COKE is a lightweight node.js MVC framework that speeds up your web development. It's simple, it's modularized, it's somking fast!Features MVC structure. Mongoose as ODM (mongodb), supports validation. Lightening fast template parsing with thunder. It renders over a million pages within a second. However it can be replaced with......

15. Chaplin

Chaplin Chaplin is an architecture for JavaScript applications using the Backbone.js library. Chaplin addresses Backbone’s limitations by providing a lightweight and flexible structure that features well-proven design patterns and best practices.......