The right way to build multi platform apps in 2023 using web tech. ?

• tauri

  469 77,154 9.8 Rust

  Build smaller, faster, and more secure desktop applications with a web frontend.

  

People seem to love Tauri for desktop apps, but it doesn't seem to be ready for mobile yet.

• react-native

  524 115,579 10.0 C++

  A framework for building native applications using React

  

There's also React Native that apparently takes care of both UI and native APIs.

• SurveyJS

  surveyjs.io sponsored

  Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

  

• NativeScript

  30 23,660 8.7 TypeScript

  ⚡ Empowering JavaScript with native platform APIs. ✨ Best of all worlds (TypeScript, Swift, Objective C, Kotlin, Java). Use what you love ❤️ Angular, Capacitor, Ionic, React, Solid, Svelte, Vue with: iOS (UIKit, SwiftUI), Android (View, Jetpack Compose), Dart (Flutter) and you name it compatible.

  

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.

• Ionic Framework

  129 50,386 9.9 TypeScript

  A powerful cross-platform UI toolkit for building native-quality iOS, Android, and Progressive Web Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

  

There are UI Kits like Quasar (Vue-only) and Ionic (React, Angular or Vue).

• Apache Cordova

  56 3,589 4.8 JavaScript

  Apache Cordova Android

  

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.

• capacitor

  154 11,126 9.4 JavaScript

  Build cross-platform Native Progressive Web Apps for iOS, Android, and the Web ⚡️

  

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.

• CUA

  6 1,013 6.3 TypeScript

  (no longer maintained) create-universal-app(CUA) is an opinionated template for creating fullstack universal apps (Expo, Next, tRPC, Prisma, Clerk, Solito, Tamagui)

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com sponsored

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• Flutter

  1,203 161,649 10.0 Dart

  Flutter makes it easy and fast to build beautiful apps for mobile and beyond

  

Another option is to use Flutter. I've never built anything with it but seems straightforward and it works on all platforms.

Suggest a related project