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by mirimir 2537 days ago
Well, let's see.

Begins with:

    <!doctype html>
Has a 3K character script:

    <script>!function(c){function e(e) ... </script>
I'd say that's a web page.
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That's a definition of webpage, but you don't explain why webpages aren't a subset of apps. I saw your comment pre-edit, which said that an app has to be downloaded to a user's device to run, but that also doesn't exclude webpages since an HTML document and its scripts also have to be downloaded to a device to run. Is it something that has to be pre-compiled? Is an html and javascript page embedded in a binary an app? I'm only trying to point out that the word "app" is too ambiguous. We can agree that a book isn't an app, but beyond that the definition is purely subjective.
App is short for application. Web pages with scripting existed for years before anyone called anything an app.

Maybe it's just semantics. But it comes off, to me, as pretentious.

Sorry for coming off as pretentious, but that's just the default message that comes with create-react-app. And I conveniently disregarded the idea of making a change!
Hey, thanks :)

Now I know why I've been seeing that error so much.