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• capacitor

  153 11,086 9.4 JavaScript

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

  

I think PWA and "packaged" versions in app stores are absolutely the right route for a significant majority of apps. Obviously anything "game like", api that needs extensive native features or is incredibly performance critical would be better as a native app. However so many apps are just a version of the web experience anyway, whether it's a content consumption app, something like an online sore, or a business/enterprise data app.

The old thoughts about the performance of PWAs and apps built with PhoneGap/Cordova are complexity superseded now. The performance of webkit/blink on mobile devices is so impressive a well made app will be indistinguishable from a native mobile app.

If you are looking at packaging a PWA for app stores take a look at PWABuilder (https://www.pwabuilder.com) and Capacitor (https://capacitorjs.com).

With WASM you can increasingly use things such as SQLite as you local datastore for PWAs and then, with Capacitor, use native SQLite for the packaged version, unifying your entire front end.

• absurd-sql

  24 4,045 2.5 JavaScript

  sqlite3 in ur indexeddb (hopefully a better backend soon)

We are very close to having WASM SQLite with persistence in the web platform. Until now SQLite compiled to WASM was in memory and you had to write the whole database out as a binary array to save changes. There is absurd-sql (https://github.com/jlongster/absurd-sql), which builds a virtual file system on top of IndexedDB for sqlite, its incredible, but a bit of an ugly hack.

However, the new file-access apis (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/File_System...) that are landing in browsers will fix this. One of the things it does is enable very efficient block level read/write access to a privet sandboxed filesystem for the websites origin, perfect for persistent sqlite. There is more here: https://web.dev/file-system-access/#accessing-files-optimize...

• 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.

  

• PouchDB

  8 16,257 9.2 JavaScript

  :koala: - PouchDB is a pocket-sized database.

  

I love PouchDB, it's incredible, however I fear its a project that is loosing it momentum (I do think it has pick up a little over the last year though).

It has a very aggressive stale bot closing issues (this search shows 700 closed stale issues https://github.com/pouchdb/pouchdb/issues?q=is%3Aissue+stale...), some which I really don't think it should have. It gives the impression of a very active but stable platform that I don't necessarily think is accurate.

For example I found a hash collision bug while working on a side project, the issue was closed as stale (https://github.com/pouchdb/pouchdb/issues/8257)

• flet

  62 9,088 9.4 Python

  Flet enables developers to easily build realtime web, mobile and desktop apps in Python. No frontend experience required.

  

• web.dev

  148 3,547 9.0 Nunjucks

  Discontinued The frontend, backend, and content source code for web.dev

  

Except Google's is one of the main PWA backers, https://web.dev/ belongs to Google.

Here, how to officialy create packages for the Android app store, https://developer.chrome.com/docs/android/trusted-web-activi...

• 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.

  

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