Cordova has many issues and shortcomings but that was not really the issue I had. E.g. you had to use a shim [1] otherwise many JS frameworks wouldn't even work

Cordova has many issues and shortcomings but that was not really the issue I had. E.g. you had to use a shim [1] otherwise many JS frameworks wouldn't even work in the webview and on Windows 10 you have to work around capability restrictions. On Windows 10 at least there was a straightforward way to sideload a dev build. On Win8.1 Phone this was quite complicated. The performance of the webview was also pretty bad. [1] https://github.com/Microsoft/winstore-jscompat https://github.com/Microsoft/winstore-jscompat