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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Frostwolf@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

❤️‍🔥 🎇 It’s finally here! And it will live on my home screen just like Apollo used to do. 🔥 ❤️‍🔥

Just spreading this news in case you’re like me and late to the good news :)

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[-] Pyon@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago

WefWef UI is great, just wish it wasn’t a web app

[-] EmilyInept@reddthat.com 16 points 1 year ago

Honestly it’s hard to tell. Even on my old iPhone X it’s pretty seamless. I wish Apple and Android would give PWA apps more feature support overall tbh.

[-] ryno364@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It’s definitely not as responsive and has a slightly laggy feel to it. I mean it looks and runs great for a webapp. But it just isn’t as good as a native app.

[-] wtfeweguys@lemmy.whynotdrs.org 1 points 1 year ago

It’s the push notifications I’m missing most

[-] Arn_Thor@lemmy.fmhy.ml 15 points 1 year ago

It’s hard to tell until suddenly your phone is out of battery.

[-] BackStabbath@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Oh PWAs take more battery?

[-] mattes@lemmy.kussi.me 1 points 1 year ago

Memmy is just a webapp with extra steps though.

[-] Pyon@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

The extra step is that it doesn’t run through Safari.

[-] sgriff@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago
[-] mattes@lemmy.kussi.me 2 points 1 year ago

It is react native, meaning it uses the same basic web technologies as wefwef. It’s just bundled up and distributed through the app stores rather than through your browser. I am not complaining though both WefWef and Memmy are absolutely awesome.

[-] sgriff@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's not like electron or something. Sure metro works similarly to webpack, but it's not the same basic web technologies as wefwef. RN runs on threads on your device, a main thread, js thread and shadow thread. The js thread talks to the main thread through a bridge. React Native allows us to work and interface with native APIs with the device, while PWAs does not do that. PWAs don't do that on your phone, it's just like running on Safari really. While the code itself isn't "native" we end up with native components through the bridge. (If all of RN was just a webview then it would be more like how you're describing.)

The way RN works is fundamentally different than React, despite the syntax looking similar and RN being written in JS. It's not like its just React bundled up into a mobile app. I often wish they hadn't named it React Native for this reason, and for having to look up stuff and just getting React answers all the time lol. I am one of the Memmy devs and I am a React developer professionally. FYI this is not in any way a diss at wefwef for not being native, its super super impressive what they've done, I'm sure I could learn a lot about React from their code. Also sorry about the disjointed thoughts, I'm sure I repeated some stuff here or there lol. Hope this clarified a bit how RN works though.

[-] mattes@lemmy.kussi.me 4 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the great and detailed reply! Tbh I really thought React Native was just using the webview… super embarassing for a dev of 12 years.

[-] sgriff@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Glad it was helpful!

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