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If your like this approach to building hybrid native mobile apps, I highly recommend following Joe Masilotti at https://masilotti.com/
I only read three emails newsletters, and Joe’s is one of them because it’s roughly once per month and it keeps me current on all the things happening with Hotwire and Turbo Native apps.
Ah, this is part of the Turbo project that had the whole controversy earlier this month around DHH unilaterally removing TypeScript, citing only his own experience, despite overwhelming community disapproval: https://github.com/hotwired/turbo/pull/971
It's a really cool pattern to have server-side rendering drive a specification that's used by web and native components alike. Airbnb uses this pattern to great effect: https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/a-deep-dive-into-airbn... - and ironically, they speak to the importance of strong typing of the data model as a way to control complexity.
I really hoped that Turbo would be a way to make this pattern more mainstream. But, much like Unity, 37signals seems intent on taking actions that hurt its developer community, and it's hard to justify moving towards a solution with such antagonistic governance.
I built a thing that makes it much simpler to make apps: https://www.applin.dev
You make a web server that returns JSON defining your UI. Then you make a native iOS app by copy/pasting the provided Main.swift file and adding the URL of your server. The app uses an iOS client library, fetches the JSON page definition, and builds/updates the page with native widgets. I'm planning to eventually build Android, web, and desktop clients.