HACKER Q&A
📣 jstummbillig

State of PWA?


You are looking to bring a web app (think gmail) to the phone, including installation/icon, notifications, maybe some offline/cache capabilities, to both iOS and Android.

What is your experience doing that as a PWA over going native? Does it work? What are the pitfalls?

  👤 encryptluks2 Accepted Answer ✓
PWAs continue to expand and there are new features constantly being added. You can even customize the full menu overlays now to replace tools like Electron, but the biggest pitfall is there still isn't an API to pass messages between a native app and a web app.

Once that is done I think most of the Electron and similar bloat will go away and hopefully Firefox will jump on board to have at least a few options to use as the web app backend.