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I heard the main dev has some sick fascination with is very dedicated to PWA.

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7 points

Good!

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41 points

I hope it stays PWA.

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i hope so too

it works incredibly well as a PWA and feels 100% like a native app. This also allows me to open it on my portrait-orientation monitor on my PC and it feels very good. Handling is much better than the native lemmy UI and i only visit lemmy ui for admin stuff

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Same. The PWA is great.

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Writing a native app, and not just a web wrapper, is a different skillset to writing a PWA. It’s not a quick conversion, it’s a whole new app from scratch and everything would be rewritten.

This is a superb PWA, and web apps will get better in each iOS release.

There are plenty of native apps to choose from if you want one.

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Actually, as I understand it, wefwef is built using the Ionic framework, which has a really handy tool called Capacitor that lets you port over a web app to native really easily. It’s pretty neat!

https://ionicframework.com/docs/native

Edit: more info https://capacitorjs.com/

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That lets you access native device features from a webapp/website.

It doesn’t make a webapp a “native” app. It would still be exactly the same web based technologies - still a very fancy website. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. As wefwef is amazing

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That lets you access native device features from a webapp/website.

That’s exactly why I want. It runs pretty smooth anyway, so it’s not really a problem that it’s a webapp.

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web only.

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Unfortunately, PWA have a limit of only 50 MB storage on your device. Not sure what this means for wefwef’s ability to store and show content, or to grow features over time.

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I’m also curious if haptics can be implemented in a PWA. I’ve seen conflicting info.

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