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I'm genuinely curious: do you have any examples you'd like to share? Not that React Native is the same as a PWA, but even in that space I have yet to find an RN

I'm genuinely curious: do you have any examples you'd like to share? Not that React Native is the same as a PWA, but even in that space I have yet to find an RN app (at least those I know about from their Showcase page [1]) that rivals a native app on iOS, but perhaps it's wrong to assume a React Native app would be comparable to or strictly better than a PWA. [1] https://reactnative.dev/showcase https://reactnative.dev/showcase

anon373839 3y ago
I don’t have an example I can show, unfortunately. I am currently building an app for internal use, and because I’m obsessive about presentation, I ironed out every wrinkle in this department. It’s 100% fluid, there are no layout shifts, no surprises anywhere. You would never know it’s not native. But I will admit it took a lot of effort to hunt down all the little idiosyncrasies and fix them. I think a problem with frontend web development is that there are a lot of mediocre practices that became standard operating procedure. When I do this type of work, I try to keep the dependencies very lean and write a lot of stuff from scratch.
- szasamasa 3y ago
  me too it is just totally possible, there are so many web api-s, you just need to be a good programmer and study a lot you will not really find or use big web apps because 1. most companies have already built their native apps with mobile engineers 2. web "programmers" or rather designers are stuck with old tech 3. web apps will start to become strategic targets(!) by most developers/companies if you are sure they are cross platform (which was crippled by Apple and now they even try to eliminate modern web capabilities on iOS
  - troupo 3y ago
    Which modern web capabilities for a strategic investment that Apple tries to eliminate require you to load 2.5 megabytes of Javascript to show a few lines of text? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39413396 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39413396

anon373839 3y ago

I don’t have an example I can show, unfortunately. I am currently building an app for internal use, and because I’m obsessive about presentation, I ironed out every wrinkle in this department. It’s 100% fluid, there are no layout shifts, no surprises anywhere. You would never know it’s not native. But I will admit it took a lot of effort to hunt down all the little idiosyncrasies and fix them. I think a problem with frontend web development is that there are a lot of mediocre practices that became standard operating procedure. When I do this type of work, I try to keep the dependencies very lean and write a lot of stuff from scratch.

szasamasa 3y ago
me too it is just totally possible, there are so many web api-s, you just need to be a good programmer and study a lot you will not really find or use big web apps because 1. most companies have already built their native apps with mobile engineers 2. web "programmers" or rather designers are stuck with old tech 3. web apps will start to become strategic targets(!) by most developers/companies if you are sure they are cross platform (which was crippled by Apple and now they even try to eliminate modern web capabilities on iOS
- troupo 3y ago
  Which modern web capabilities for a strategic investment that Apple tries to eliminate require you to load 2.5 megabytes of Javascript to show a few lines of text? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39413396 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39413396