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Re:Building all of our new mobile apps using React Native by asdff on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @10:14PM (#22188552)
The biggest problem with mobile apps is that you don't always have a reliable connection to the internet, even when your carrier is claiming you have 4g lte with all the bars.

Web apps should really have the option to cache the page entirely for offline use.

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Re:Building all of our new mobile apps using React Native by ficklepickle on Thursday January 30, 2020 @03:32AM (#22189835)
They do. It's called a PWA. Service workers cache the assets.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Service_Wor...

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