I work on the WeVote.us non-profit voting tech project.
https://github.com/wevote/WebApp
About a year ago, I started a port of React to React Native -- some
people report 30% to 80% common code, but for us is was optimistically
10%. We are a small group of volunteers, who put most of our front end
effort into our React Webapp. After 3 months of working on the port,
the code that I was changing had diverged so much from the non-native
app, that I couldn't see a reasonable path to developing once and
deploying for both Webapp and Native. I came to the painful decision to
put React Native aside. We were developing two similar apps, and that
was too much work for us to afford.
We came to a similar decision a 3 or 4 years ago at FinancialForce, a
for-profit that was wrapping a JavaScript app for the Salesforce
platform in Cordova -- FinancialForce was a well funded company with a
successful product, and we couldn't afford to develop for two or three
platforms. Their Cordova app is going strong.
The minor downsides of Cordova are truly minor -- it basically works
really well.
Cordova is exactly what we needed and still need, our WeVote Cordova
wrapper is in the iOS App Store and Google Play, and works great.
Please don't give up, Cordova has an important place in the market.
Thanks,
Steve
On 1/25/19 5:28 AM, gandhi rajan wrote:
I completely agree with Oliver. My personal opinion is when genius like
Nikola Tesla was under rated we need not worry much about popularity. As
long as we feel motivated to contribute to the framework and serve the end
users we should feel proud.
Regards,
Gandhi.
On Friday, January 25, 2019, Oliver Salzburg <oliver.salzb...@gmail.com>
wrote:
Why do you feel the need to be competitive? Isn't it enough to serve all
the existing users that appreciate the framework as it is?
Seems fine to me. And popularity is a pretty bad quality indicator IMHO,
especially when the source is the SO community.
On 2019-01-24 19:31, Chris Brody wrote:
I recently saw an article about app frameworks, where Cordova sadly
shows up as the most dreaded framework in an image near the end:
https://medium.com/zerotomastery/tech-trends-showdown-react-
vs-angular-vs-vue-61ffaf1d8706
and I just raised a minor usability issue:
https://github.com/apache/cordova/issues/71
And this is just the tip of the iceberg.
It makes me pretty sad to see this kind of bad press despite the
amount of efforts taken over the years to update and maintain such a
widely used framework.
I am starting to wonder if it is worth the amount of effort needed for
Cordova to remain competitive with alternatives such as Capacitor and
React Native.
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