frontity VS Apache Cordova

Honestly I wish they just offered an officially supported framework-agnostic headless solution on par with Block Themes. I was kinda hopeful when Automattic bought Frontify[1] some time ago, but for some reason apparently that went nowhere.

[1]https://frontity.org

You may want to start with frontity, the headless solution from...automattic. https://frontity.org/

I've done a bit of googling around, it seems there's a framework called Frontity which was used for this. Apparently it's no longer being maintained, so I was wondering if this is still the gold standard or if there's a better way?

Wordpress recently bought this company. That should indicate the direction WP is heading: https://frontity.org/

Check here - https://frontity.org/

(for more info https://github.com/frontity/frontity)

have you played with https://frontity.org/ at all?

Frotinity

Frontity is an open-source framework based on React. It uses your WordPress site as a headless CMS and renders it in a React framework. It enables you to build a fast headless WordPress static website quickly.

Anyone have experience with/opinions on Apache Cordova? [1]

It seems like it would solve most of the PWA issues. Although I vaguely recall reading that Apple is not too fond of apps that are basically just wrapped web views.

[1] https://cordova.apache.org/

Has anyone tried pwa builder?[2]

Thank you for any insights!

[0]https://cordova.apache.org/

A little over a decade ago, I worked on the open-source project Apache Cordova/Adobe PhoneGap, first at IBM and later at Adobe. Apache Cordova enables you to build mobile applications using HTML, CSS and JavaScript while targeting multiple platforms with one code base. In today’s technology landscape, mobile is dominated by iOS and Android. In the early 2010’s we were awash in mobile platforms from BlackBerry, Microsoft, Firefox, Tizen, etc. Targeting multiple platforms, including the web, from one codebase was a game changer for overworked development teams.

There are layers that offer access to native APIs like capacitor, cordova and nativescript. Apparently sometimes multiple of them should be used, but I didn't understand what are the differences even after reading the announcement. These seem to be frontend agnostic technologies and Capacitor is apparently the more modern choice at the moment.

To be honest, we have not only Capacitor but also Cordova which Capacitor is based on but because Capacitor is more popular, has better community, deals with some problems better, and works beautifully with Ionic Framework I will tell more in a second, I simply recommend Capacitor.

Apache Cordova is an example of this. It is also useful if you need to access native code (the camera, database, etc), or to use just as a WebView Container as an application to deploy to the Play store/ App Store

I've had a lot of success with Vue + Cordova. https://cordova.apache.org/

Ratchet, Ionic, Cordova.