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by atlantis_ 1791 days ago
No questions but one suggestion - it would be great to ease the process of making PWAs for the Linux space. My background is designer -> JS -> node -> mucking around with C/C++, and I think this would be a great way to seed experimentation and creativity around apps - essentially hooking into the curiosity of someone chancing on the project but then being able to pick through examples, boilerplates etc and getting excited at prospect of experimenting with some core HTML/CSS/JS skills for a side project - also specifically outside of the cloying business space of android/win/iOS. The problem with Electron is you embed an entire browser with each app - perhaps some sort of version manager that links PWAs + GTK webviews?
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mobian 1791 days ago
You can write native applications for GTK in any language you want. Most of the time they should be much less memory hungry than running a browser.
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kop316 1791 days ago
> it would be great to ease the process of making PWAs for the Linux space

So developing for Mobian is no different than developing for Debian (in fact then I don't need to use the Modem, I just do all of my development on a Debian Machine).

So this isn't a Mobian issue per se?

EDIT: I also checked, you can install PWAs via Epihpany (which is installed by default on Mobian).

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