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This is a huge reason to go with Tauri over Electron. I don't get why there isn't (or is there) a simple way to package a web app for all platforms. Everyone still makes this weird artificial distinction between Desktop and Mobile despite the technical capabilities and user expectations being close to the same.
There is. It's called hosting it on the web.
there are webview libraries from windows/linux/macos so electron.js-without-chromium works. are there similar webview libraries from android and ios that you can link to as the desktop OS does? anyone knows what those libraries are? I wish there is a c++ electron.js alternative, we now have tauri(rust) and wails(go), I'm using webview on github to use c++, just not as polished but it works well though.
Definitely keeping an eye on this.
What does "Alpha" mean here? As compared to Beta.
Usually a beta is considered feature complete but not completely finished (expected bugs etc) while an alpha is not yet feature complete. An alpha version comes before a beta version
there are webview libraries from windows/linux/macos so electron.js-without-chromium works. are there similar webview libraries from android and ios that you can link to as the desktop OS does? anyone knows what those libraries are? I wish there is a c++ electron.js alternative, we now have tauri(rust) and wails(go), I'm using webview on github to use c++, just not as polished but it works well though.
There is a brand new one called Socket, it’s more targeted at web developers - no rust or anything required. Backend is also completely optional. It supports all mobile and desktop — it will ship a stable release next month: https://github.com/socketsupply/socket
if you don't want to learn yet another new framework (flutter), or write native apps, the only option seems to be ionic, how is socket different, is the selling point here p2p instead of client-server otherwise it works just like ionic?
Do they use the native api of the OS to get the native feel or is it yet another website as app approach?
This is a huge reason to go with Tauri over Electron. I don't get why there isn't (or is there) a simple way to package a web app for all platforms. Everyone still makes this weird artificial distinction between Desktop and Mobile despite the technical capabilities and user expectations being close to the same.
>I don't get why there isn't (or is there) a simple way to package a web app for all platforms. There is. It's called hosting it on the web.
I've yet to see a Web UI toolkit/framework that works on all of the desktop (Windows, *Linux* and OSX) and Android and iOS. If they manage to pull this off then bravo to them.
Congrats on the release! From the looks of it Capacitor[0] has quite a big lead on in terms of support for native APIs (secure storage, SSL pinning, biometrics, etc) but hopefully they'll catch up quickly and avoid some of the mistakes Capacitor has made. Definitely keeping an eye on this. [0] https://capacitorjs.com/