[xyby]

Is there a reason that the web is not a target of react native?

It seems somewhat insane to have a cross platform approach and leave out the biggest platform of all, the web.

Or - looking at it the other way round - what approaches are there to take a working pwa website and turn it into an app? What advantages over such an approach can react native bring to the table?

[yesimahuman]

The Ionic team recently released React support so you can build a PWA using React and target iOS, Android, web, and electron. Uses Capacitor under the hood for full native access. It’s been getting a lot of usage since the release: https://ionicframework.com/blog/announcing-ionic-react/

[WorldMaker]

Also you can use Capacitor with any PWA-style web application without using any of the rest of the Ionic Framework. https://capacitor.ionicframework.com/

It's currently the best maintained successor to PhoneGap/Cordova.

[harrisonjackson]

There has been a large push to support web as a target in react-native by expo.

https://docs.expo.io/versions/latest/

Depending on the complexity of your app - expo is the best place to start with react-native. Their managed workflows allow you to write in 100% javascript w/ a lot of the native libraries already linked an exposed in JS. If you need something they haven't bundled already then you can eject and have a good starting point.

Expo web is still fairly new but they seem to have prioritized it as highly as support for Android and iOS.

[rpeden]

It is, and it's even mentioned and linked to in the article.

[chadlavi]

react-native-web exists: https://github.com/necolas/react-native-web

[hn_throwaway_99]

Maybe you've heard of ReactJS?