• Unmapped@lemmy.ml
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    3 days ago

    I dont use many PWA’s since I had to run them on chromium before. But as a web Dev and even more so as a user, I feel like PWA’s are the way to go. They completely avoid all the app stores drama plus the 30% fees. Also the devs get to deploy instant updates without the delay going through the app stores. Just like any other web app. If done right I could see them replacing most native apps. Assuming we can get apple to allow PWAs full CPU usage. Currently they are throttling them from what I understand.

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      3 days ago

      And FWIW, Firefox already supports them on android; this is about desktop support.

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        2 days ago

        I was going to say, “am I losing my mind?” I’ve had PWAs on Firefox for years. I’ve never once cared to use one on the desktop I guess.

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      3 days ago

      My only problem with PWAs is that they have arbitrary security requirements. Anything non-localhost needs https. No self-signed cert allowed. Enforcing people to buy a router that supports dyndns for their self hosted apps is odd. I’m wondering who makes these rules.

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        2 days ago

        You can do DDNS for free, using a client app on your server, rather than router.

        I use cloudflare-ddns

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          2 days ago

          Oh right. Thanks, indeed. However, for private apps on LAN addresses it’s still a problem.

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        2 days ago

        They are god-awful everywhere. I don’t get why people can be like “yeah I want all of my apps to be janky crap that is usually missing a lot of features you’d get for free using the platform toolkit”. The only exception I’ve seen thus far that was actually good is Figma and god knows how much effort they had to put into that to make it behave even remotely reasonably.

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      3 days ago

      But it’s easier to block trackers & ads on a PWA, and life made me very cynical about “the industry” 😅