Re:How Web Has Evolved: Progressive Web Apps(PWA) vs. Native...
by pjmlp on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @03:28AM
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After playing around with PWAs, their OS APIs integration (UWP and Android) and WebAssembly, I have came to the conclusion that for plain CRUD apps, mobile Web and PWAs are the way to go.
Now for highly interactive experiences that go beyond the typical CRUD app, then native apps are still the way to go, specially when some Web APIs happen to be constrained to what is actually available, e.g. WebGL vs OpenGL ES 3.2/Vulkan/Metal, WebAudio vs audio engine, SIMD access, Workers vs actual multi-core,...
In any case, from my point of view, PWAs are a good argument against being forced to use any Cordova, Ionic or React Native flavor.
Now for highly interactive experiences that go beyond the typical CRUD app, then native apps are still the way to go, specially when some Web APIs happen to be constrained to what is actually available, e.g. WebGL vs OpenGL ES 3.2/Vulkan/Metal, WebAudio vs audio engine, SIMD access, Workers vs actual multi-core,...
In any case, from my point of view, PWAs are a good argument against being forced to use any Cordova, Ionic or React Native flavor.