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Re:How to make a web app work offline by lecarore on Sunday March 08, 2020 @08:58AM (#22517790)
"it will be easier for you to generate a native mobile-app from your PWA source code using technologies such as Ionic, React Native or Apache Cordova."

I believe react native doesn't belong here, it's not browser powered like ionic and Cordova.

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Re:How to make a web app work offline by mcdonnellb on Sunday March 08, 2020 @12:10PM (#22518748)
Genuine question, can you explain this a little more?
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Re:How to make a web app work offline by behindsight on Sunday March 08, 2020 @12:24PM (#22518861)
Ionic and Cordova generally are "webview" apps. Essentially a headless mobile web site with access to device APIs.

In modern Android and iOS, you could also just install a PWA directly without wrapping it in Ionic/Cordova with the caveat of losing access to some device level APIs.

React Native utilizes actual native components that are declared via a JS bridge. It's not a webview.

However in the author's defense, with the current work on react-native-web, you could share a lot of your react-native code that would swap device components with their equivalent web based components.

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