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There are many web apps that make zero sense to write a native app for. For example, my company's product is an LMS - the administrator side is not something th
by Bahamut 10y ago
There are many web apps that make zero sense to write a native app for. For example, my company's product is an LMS - the administrator side is not something that makes much sense to make a mobile app for iOS and Android, as one has to create/manage courses, manage users, and view useful displays of data (i.e. charts). Instead, we have a web app that degrades acceptably for mobile, losing such features as multiple selections for modification (it has a lot of grids).
For such an app, having a longer load upfront in order to facilitate vastly better UX than using purely server-side rendered pages is a huge win for our customers, and having the time to load & interact being low also adds tremendous value to the customers, to the point that they flock to us over our competitors.
I don't find myself having a problem with frontend web app architecture - most of the problems out there are already solved or solvable with a little time spent on thought, but the knowledge is not widespread, and so we have a lot of people who have never seen what good structure looks like.
- blub 10y agoI don't know what's best for your customers, I assume the company did usability studies and drew conclusions from that. There's always cases where it makes sense to make use of particular technologies. It absolutely does not make sense to transform most websites into web apps that are completely broken without JavaScript, which is what's happening right now.
- abledon 10y agowhat LMS if i may ask?