svelte-capacitor VS Flutter

Thanks for the suggestion! From the comments so far a Vite + Svelte SPA does seem like the way to go. Whilst I hadn't seen the repo you shared yet, but I was looking at this one: https://github.com/drannex42/svelte-capacitor. Would be keen to hear your thoughts on if one is better than the other.

I agree on going the PWA way (except for iOS quite easy, and iOS is doable), other than that there's still hybrid approaches. I stumbled upon this repo some time ago, maybe that's something to start with (using Capacitor, there's also NeutralinoJS, Tauri, and others)

I am planning on making a Svelte + Routify + Vite Mobile & Web App. And when choosing from options for mobile dev, I concluded from Reddit threads previous to this one, that Capacitor might be the best choice vs it's sole contender, the unmantained Svelte Native. I was btw planning on using [this template](https://github.com/drannex42/svelte-capacitor/tree/master/src) for that.

I develop a realrovely popular open source Svelte[1] related template (w/ live reload!) to develop cross platform apps.

Capacitor really is a beauty to work with. While I disagree on some design decisions (putting build platforms at the root of the directory for one) the overall ecosystem is quite healthy and strong, and while backwards compat with Cordova is hit or miss, its quite good for an old school tool thats a decade old.

[1]. https://github.com/drannex42/svelte-capacitor

Pretty much a combination of svelte-ionic-app and svelte-capacitor but without the extra code related to the examples in svelte-ionic-app

You can check it out here. I am always open to questions and PR's!

I built a fairly popular template for this: https://github.com/drannex42/svelte-capacitor

[3]: https://github.com/flutter/flutter/tree/master/packages/flut...

Thanks - that link does not appear to be open access, anyways I don't think I've seen it. I'm familiar with Flutter at a high-level (Kevin Moore gave a great talk on it at Wasm I/O), and I think other than requiring users to work in Dart, it is probably one of the most powerful ways to do cross-platform UI today.

Worth noting that their original GPU backend was Skia, and now they are retooling around Flutter GPU (Impeller)[0], which is kind of designed similarly as an abstract rendering interface over platform-specific GPU APIs.

[0]https://github.com/flutter/flutter/wiki/Flutter-GPU

If you are considering Electron/React then I would suggest adding Flutter to your list of technologies to consider. It uses Dart (a language similar to C#) and has a lot going for it… relatively quick to get up to speed with, fantastic developer experience (e.g., hot reload, great IDE support, good development tools) and very strong cross-platform support: it generates native iOS, Android, MacOS, Windows and Linux executables. Check it out: https://flutter.dev/

You can find the React Native documentation here and Flutter Documentation here.

[1]https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/55092#issuecomment...

> There is actually a great issue thread on the Flutter GitHub that explains exactly why other solutions do not work correctly when compared to hooks [0]

Interesting. I assume you are referring to this comment in particular -> https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/51752#issuecomment... ?