Realized that I’ve moved past the idea of “Hybrid Apps” “Hybrid” encourages the use of native plugins as a solution, rather than a polyfill
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Replying to @dpogue
I keep seeing people building “Hybrid” apps and reaching for native plugins that they don’t need, because they think that’s the “right way”
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Build Web Apps, for the web platform. Use tools like
@apachecordova/@phonegap to package and polyfill. Native plugins as a last resort only1 reply 1 retweet 2 likes -
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Need to upload photos from the camera? Have you tried using a <input type=“file”> instead of a buggy native plugin? It works
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People seem to forgot: “The ultimate purpose of PhoneGap is to cease to exist.” That goal is getting closer, let go of your plugins.
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Following up on my thoughts from last night: there's cool stuff happening for the web with ServiceWorkers and Progressive Web Apps.
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But it feels like Cordova is falling behind because of the maintenance burden of plugins. I want Cordova to polyfill Progressive Web Apps
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@slightlylate@mmocny Yeah, Google team did some cool stuff in that space (ServiceWorker → Cordova), but they don’t seem active anymore :(2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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