PWA is somewhere between web and native apps, kinda taking the best of both worlds. With a bit of effort from the devs PWA won’t feel different from a native app for the end user
Here’s a good quick recap: https://youtu.be/Z8MjdQGyjfA
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right. makes sense. like slack cheers brother
It is a website but it has a manifest that tells a mobile browser to handle it in a particular way.
This includes hiding the address bar, and controlling keyboard and a bunch of other UI/UX stuff, plus there a bit of client side backend you can implement.
eg you can use “service workers” which will run stuff on the client in the background.
PWA’s have been a thing for ~10 years.
I mostly interact with my VPS tools / junk via pretty PWA’s.
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I’m actually writing a quick recap of what these are to raise awareness. Will be out soon.
Here’s a quick post explaining the basic similarities and differences between platform-specific apps, PWAs and traditional websites: nostr:note129fxp4vtqs0ecccdh2cfzt9dld8dqkmgjmyc5ku5qpsp7vz0rtgsntq5vr
Sounds like a no brainer. Suddenly Damus wouldn't be limited to Apple's captive market, and on top of that would be free of their blackmailing too.