starters VS nextjs-tailwind-ionic-capacitor-starter

The JHipster project has supported generating an Ionic app using a generator-jhipster-ionic module for the past several years. As the primary maintainer of this module, I'm proud to announce that it has been re-written as a blueprint, and it's much easier to understand now. The previous module relied on the Ionic CLI, the base Angular starter, the Ionic JHipster starter, and custom code to glue it all together. Now, the source code is all contained in one project.

After investigating the source code (You can find it on Github as well: https://github.com/ionic-team/starters/tree/main/angular/official/tabs), I learned the following:

wow, that's a weird limitation.

The README says: "SSR is currently disabled for the Next.js app as the app will be fully client-side rendered for iOS and Android. This is a limitation we are working to address in a future update."

I guess it's because CapacitorJS pre-bundles the entire PWA for the App Stores:

"Of course, you also could load the app completely remotely by changing the server.url configuration for Capacitor to point to your SSR'ed Next.js app, but that has other challenges such as App Store approval if the app doesn't check the boxes for Apple to qualify it as an app that has enough native integration (at that point this is on you, not Capacitor)"

https://github.com/mlynch/nextjs-tailwind-ionic-capacitor-st...

But I don't understand why SSR would be disabled for the NextJS PWA on the web?

Maybe Max Lynch aka. @mlynch aka. @yesimahuman could provide some insight here.

If you want to use something like tailwind to customize the content of your pages, that is a decent option. You would use Ionic for the shell and Tailwind for your page designs. Take a look at this example if you want to explore that route (in React though): https://github.com/mlynch/nextjs-tailwind-ionic-capacitor-starter

Max Lynch from Ionic has a great repo demonstrating this. He uses it to get Next to work with Ionic and Capacitor but the idea is essentially the same.

Agreed! Next.js works great with this model! I’d recommend Capacitor over Cordova (similar but more modern). Here’s an example: https://github.com/mlynch/nextjs-tailwind-ionic-capacitor-st...

You can use Next with React Router, making it function exactly as a React app with nested routes. This project shows this working with Ionic's router, but the same setup can be used with React Router for the same outcome.

Also, note that this repository is a boilerplate for all 3, which uses ionic capacitor, in one repository: https://github.com/mlynch/nextjs-tailwind-ionic-capacitor-starter , I guess it is not using nextjs SSR capability though.

If you're confused by all the project names and how they work together, don't worry, I'll break down each part of the stack each project is concerned with, along with some visuals and code samples demonstrating how all the projects work together. At the end I'll share a starter project with these technologies installed and working together that can form the foundation of your next app.