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Re: Svelte Native

#31

Post by kevinak »

tootie wrote: post #28
woahitsraj wrote: post #23

While I'm a huge Svelte fan, this project hasn't really gotten very much care and attention over the last few years. Which is honestly fine. React and React Native I think do a much better job of filling the niche of people who want to build native apps with web tech. That being said, I think with the progress that Safari has made in implementing PWA support, the increased hostility of Apple toward native developers,…

We've been working with Capacitor recently which is the current iteration of webview-to-native. Basically you just build a website and run it through a compile step to output iOS and Android. The ergonomics of the build process and integration with native features is definitely a bit lumpy, but we've been very successful at building an all-in-one codebase that will power web, ios and android with minimal drift.

Not sure what you built but for anyone interested in going down this venue there's a blog post by a Svelte Ambassador that you can read here: https://khromov.se/how-i-published-a-gratitude-journaling-ap...

Re: Svelte Native

#32

Post by throwitaway1123 »

sacrosanct wrote: post #26
woahitsraj wrote: post #23

While I'm a huge Svelte fan, this project hasn't really gotten very much care and attention over the last few years. Which is honestly fine. React and React Native I think do a much better job of filling the niche of people who want to build native apps with web tech. That being said, I think with the progress that Safari has made in implementing PWA support, the increased hostility of Apple toward native developers,…

> The only major hurdle to this is Apple continuing to treat web apps as second class citizens on iOS If you add a site to iOS' homescreen it automatically becomes a PWA. The best example I found of a site fully leveraging this feature is Cryptee[0]. They talk about the PWA thing here: https://crypt.ee/download [0] https://crypt.ee/

The whole add to home screen process is needlessly convoluted. It would be nice if there was something similar to Smart Banners for PWAs: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/webkit/promoting_a...

Re: Svelte Native

#33

Post by FlyingSnake »

Powered by NativeScript

Hell no. It’s better to stick with RN if you want cross platform. Writing an app in Kotlin and Swift is easier compared to this contraption.

Re: Svelte Native

#34

Post by roldyclark »

tootie wrote: post #28
woahitsraj wrote: post #23

While I'm a huge Svelte fan, this project hasn't really gotten very much care and attention over the last few years. Which is honestly fine. React and React Native I think do a much better job of filling the niche of people who want to build native apps with web tech. That being said, I think with the progress that Safari has made in implementing PWA support, the increased hostility of Apple toward native developers,…

We've been working with Capacitor recently which is the current iteration of webview-to-native. Basically you just build a website and run it through a compile step to output iOS and Android. The ergonomics of the build process and integration with native features is definitely a bit lumpy, but we've been very successful at building an all-in-one codebase that will power web, ios and android with minimal drift.

Capacitor is great! Did Svelte + Capacitor for my last app. Highly recommend.

Re: Svelte Native

#36

Post by imgabe »

I’ve done a couple React Native apps and never again. They’re fine at first but if you let one sit for a few months there is a combinatorial explosion of complexity among shifting incompatibilities of different versions of javascript libraries, the framework, android/iOS versions, build systems, etc. it becomes a nightmare. I’d much rather just learn Kotlin/Swift and have only one ecosystem to maintain.

Re: Svelte Native

#37

Post by dickersnoodle »

woahitsraj wrote: post #23

While I'm a huge Svelte fan, this project hasn't really gotten very much care and attention over the last few years. Which is honestly fine. React and React Native I think do a much better job of filling the niche of people who want to build native apps with web tech. That being said, I think with the progress that Safari has made in implementing PWA support, the increased hostility of Apple toward native developers,…

> increased hostility of Apple toward native developers

Chortle.

Re: Svelte Native

#38

Post by ca-tech-run »

papa_bear wrote: post #15

My company tried using this a few years ago to build a cross platform app (and hopefully share a lot of code with our svelte web interface). We made a lot of progress in 3-4 months of trying, but we ended up running into too many odd bugs and edge cases that were difficult to debug. We eventually switched to Flutter for the mobile codebase. No doubt this and nativescript have improved since then, but from my early im…

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Re: Svelte Native

#40

Post by ezfe »

throwitaway1123 wrote: post #32
sacrosanct wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The only major hurdle to this is Apple continuing to treat web apps as second class citizens on iOS If you add a site to iOS' homescreen it automatically becomes a PWA. The best example I found of a site fully leveraging this feature is Cryptee[0]. They talk about the PWA thing here: https://crypt.ee/download [0] https://crypt.ee/

The whole add to home screen process is needlessly convoluted. It would be nice if there was something similar to Smart Banners for PWAs: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/webkit/promoting_a...

You just click "Share -> Add To Home Screen." I understand that that's technically more clicks than a smart banner but hardly "convoluted"
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