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> will gravitate towards a fairly common set of widgets that will

Is there anything like that? There is for mobile (Framework7 I like the most) but is there anything for desktop that allows me to create applications with electron in a more desktop like way? I am one of those people that doesn't really html/css. In WPF/QT/Winforms/Gtks/Xamarin/Avalonia/iOS/Android/Lazarus/Livecode I can create complex applications very fast (and a few of these are cross platform too); they don't look great (albeit consistent and not horrible), but something is working and working well in a very short time (hours). I have not found anything for Electron that works as fast as that, including bindings and logic etc.

I do a lot of HTML/css, but for web; simple things like getting a few decent looking panes with buttons and text etc that scales automatically still feels like a from scratch exercise and when using standard stuff like Bootstrap, everything looks and feels like web, not desktop. I have friends who created native looking Electron apps and it took forever to make it work well and look good (lot of quirks they had to deal with, but this is a while ago); with Qt or Avalonia (I use mostly C#) it would maybe (?) not look 'as good' (which is taste) but it would be done much faster.

There are things like [0] but then all look like Mac OS X. Are there any good ones cross platform or at least a little more 'neutral' than photon?

[0] http://photonkit.com/



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