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Just FYI (If I'm reading you correctly): That's not how react native works. It's a native app, not a wrapped website.

I suspect they just meant regular react

Ok, that's not how React works either. React is not a "solution to package websites as applications".

you know .. you're correct, I misread his original post. He was probably conflating reactnative with something like Electron

so what is the modern version of PhoneGap?

Ionic Capacitor

Cordova?