For DOM performance, they are pretty much identical. Both use Chrome(each uses a different version though, usually atom-shell uses more recent versions). For p

For DOM performance, they are pretty much identical. Both use Chrome(each uses a different version though, usually atom-shell uses more recent versions). For performance of node.js calls, I haven't run any benchmarks, so I cannot help you there. However subjectively, both felt about the same to me(except in the node-sqlite-purejs case).