JavaScriptKit VS SwiftWebUI

Looking, I found JavaScriptKit which has helped me pull in data from other sources. Awesome! But not I want to send some data to a Vapor backend, do some stuff, and get my response. All of this should be really basic, and is something I have accomplished numerous times in iOS and Vapor apps.

I wonder how far you could get using something like https://github.com/carson-katri/SwiftWebUI to render the Swift app to a webview for the other platforms... I’ve not tried it, I imagine there might be jank and limitations as it’s “a toy project” but with some work could be a legit option - I’ve run pretty bespoke and complex React Native applications as desktop apps via react-native-web and Electron and it worked incredibly well.

I do like the idea of only maintaining a single codebase, but of course it comes with significant trade offs. The idea of building for Apple-first but automatically getting a reasonable fallback for other platforms is quite appealing - as you say, for many businesses it probably makes sense to focus on having the most polished iOS experience possible.

Honestly I’ve been quite impressed with the end results we’ve got from React Native, but you are always going to be lagging behind the native platform.