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Comment by k__ | Hacker News Reader

I think, PWAs need so serious evangelism.

So much FUD around them...

PWAs have enough support that the ever-growing feature set is great. Particularly with push notifications coming to iOS soon. It's already at a place where most app development should just default to it for the sheer simplicity, control, and platform support you get out of the box.

People pick suboptimal tech choices all the time. They will continue to do so. I'm ok having competitive advantages over the wider field.

Which fud am i spreading ? I just said its not worth it when for as much work (by that i mean little) you can have a expo app embedding a webview , same result and you can publish it on the apple store, which at least was not possible for pwa when i tested it in 2021 (as said in a sibling answer i started with a pwa)

I love Expo, but everything that includes an app store isn't little work.

It isn't little work in the absolute but if you want to publish on the stores you have to go through it anyway.

my point is that

  * with PWA you just can't on the Apple App Store (to the extent of my knowledge, I would love to be proven wrong, once again I started with PWA because I wanted it to be the silver bullet)
  * with Expo you can, it is work, but it's far less than without, in 2021 we used bitrise.io which required us only to drag and drop pre-made steps, it will soon be 2 years since the app has been first published and I still don't own a mac nor I have opened android studio even once. in 2022 I think Expo provide a Saas to make it even simpler.

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