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Progressive Web Apps or Flutter: Which would you choose?
4 points by oikawa_tooru 1161 days ago
Progressive Web Apps have come a long way. Still flutter has been made exclusively for mobile. What would you choose for a cross platform app?
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hamdouni 1161 days ago
I was in the same dilemma when I stumble on the pwabuilder[1] news a few days ago...

I will use pwa for my next project as it involves the same app for web, desktop and mobile.

[1] https://www.pwabuilder.com/

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daviddever23box 1161 days ago
Do you have prior experience with building and signing desktop apps? If not, it is well worth using a framework that brings all of that boilerplate to the table. As an example: https://docs.flutter.dev/development/platform-integration/wi...
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account-5 1161 days ago
I chose dart/flutter instead of a webstack/framework for cross platform apps I wanted to write. I was way too confused as to what to chose out of all the frameworks; fear really of making the wrong choice.

You'll not get much love for dart/flutter on HN. But I'm pretty happy with them.

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Alifatisk 1161 days ago
The former doesn't exclude the latter https://docs.flutter.dev/deployment/web#pwa-support

Flutter is a great option for PWAs too!

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