Why some developers are avoiding app store headaches by going web-only

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  • SurveyJS - Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App
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  • buttplug-rs

    Rust Implementation of the Buttplug Sex Toy Control Protocol

    rust is starting to take over that field, see buttplug-rs

  • Flutter

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

    Flutter.dev

  • SurveyJS

    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.

  • proposals

    Tracking WebAssembly proposals (by WebAssembly)

    Some of those things are still proposals.

  • cordova-plugin-health

    Cordova plugin for the HealthKit and Google Fit frameworks

    It depends on the complexity of the API you are trying to access. So for example one of the plugins is called cordova-plugin-health. This plugin does native on-device queries against iOS HealthKit and Google Fit on Android. As you can see from the many many forks this plugin doesn't really translate the data 1:1 into JavaScript land. It essentially is only a subset of the whole API so when you want to access the real thing you're talking about forking the plugin and maintaining your own version. So you're right that small mods can be made but it's sorta like forking a jquery plugin. Now it's your problem.

  • old-reddit-redirect

    Ensure Reddit always loads the old design

    Free yourself: https://github.com/tom-james-watson/old-reddit-redirect

  • Standard

    🌟 JavaScript Style Guide, with linter & automatic code fixer

    forget.it.https://github.com/standard/standard/issues/1381 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20786981

  • compose-samples

    Official Jetpack Compose samples.

    Check out jetpack compose for Android. It uses the same paradigms as react so you should feel at home relatively quickly.

  • InfluxDB

    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.

  • materialdesignweb

    Material Design for Web

    I wouldn't agree that it's "nigh-impossible" but this is literally what I do for a living, so I'm probably more focused to making it work as an app than most. I also worked on Angular Material and spent a lot of time working on all different sorts of browser UI bugs, and ended up writing a new framework from scratch with the sole intent of making PWAs. So I'm probably past just a general web dev.

  • parcel

    The zero configuration build tool for the web. 📦🚀

    Parcel is a step in the right direction, but it doesn't actually work correctly. It “compiles” TypeScript without running tsc.

  • coffeescript

    Unfancy JavaScript

    Check a long list of available alternatives here (but still most likely outdated)

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