Guidance For Building Mobile First App That Is Browser Friendly

I’m moving off of jquery mobile due to being deprecated. I am really searching for a simple, flexible alternative for building a rich feature-set WebApp that is Mobile centric, but that can be accessed on the web.

The web component is important since it will contain a growing archive of searchable user-created content. The tablet/phone experience is also increasingly important for obvious reasons. My preferred approach would be to develop a PWA (progressive web app) via a UI framework like framework7, or even Bootstrap, then use capacitorjs for publishing to Android & iOS. So here are my 3 questions:

  1. I love the robust UI, database, and codebase options in Wappler and wondered what workflow you would recommend for approximating this experience. I would like to use a single codebase, limiting the number of hoops I have to jump through to ensure that my mobile user’s experience is consistent and that the backed does not have to be refactored for each environment.

  2. Does Wappler have concrete plans to ‘wrap’ in capacitorjs to allow for true PWA functionality?

  3. Has anyone experimented with developing on Wappler and processing the codebase through capacitorjs for producing PWAs?

I have also been looking at Thorium. It’s not nearly as flexible, built out, or supported as Wappler, but the PWA option is attractive as a starting point.

In any case, great work on Wappler, and any guidance on this question would be greatly appreciated.

RP

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