Capacitor: Universal Web Applications
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Capacitor: Universal Web Applications
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#2Early 2018?
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#3On home page.
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#4Early 2018?
Link should probably be updated to something which has some information:
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#5Why not just PWAs? I think the browser has come a long way, and a great number of things can now be accomplished in the browser without any additional frameworks. We built Bx (https://usebx.com) without any frameworks and it feels much like a native app on a phone or tablet when added to the home screen.
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#6I stumbled upon https://blog.ionicframework.com/announcing-capacitor-1-0-0-a... last week, much more info there.
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#7Why not just PWAs? I think the browser has come a long way, and a great number of things can now be accomplished in the browser without any additional frameworks. We built Bx ( https://usebx.com ) without any frameworks and it feels much like a native app on a phone or tablet when added to the home screen.
As soon as you like to access any sensors on the device, the PWA sadly isnt an option anymore.
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#8Is this a competitor to React Native? RN seems to be the ideal: truly native components but a JS programming model.
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#9Is this a competitor to React Native? RN seems to be the ideal: truly native components but a JS programming model.
We’re focused on pure web applications, and being able to run an app in the App Store and on the web as a PWA and Electron with the same code is a problem our users and customers are asking us to solve. It’s a different approach and I think those that want to stay web-native but still have easy access to native SDKs will find Capacitor interesting.
We’ve had some good feedback from some react native developers that they’d love to build out pages with web content and wrap it with a native shell (nav/menu/etc), while easily exposing native modules/plugins to the webview, so that’s a use case we’re going to support. Being able to use that app as a PWA is a compelling value prop of this project as well.
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#10Why not just PWAs? I think the browser has come a long way, and a great number of things can now be accomplished in the browser without any additional frameworks. We built Bx ( https://usebx.com ) without any frameworks and it feels much like a native app on a phone or tablet when added to the home screen.
I think there's a lot of instances you need more than is currently exposed for PWAs, especially on iOS. Push notifications is a big one. And the home screen installation on iOS (even with 11.3) leaves a lot to be desired compared to Android.
P.S. Bx looks pretty awesome :)