Comment by joekrill
2 days ago
> Ironically the reality here is backwards:
Maybe you quoted the wrong the thing? but there's no irony here, and it's definitely not backwards in reality: Apple and Google have both severely limited what PWAs can do such that they are vastly inferior to native apps. It would very difficult to argue otherwise.
> There's a big difference between running some native code and spinning up an entire JS virtual machine and worker environment to (effectively) modify some JSON
Presumably React Native apps do something to that extent? Or, if they don't, whatever optimization they use could certainly be applied "under-the-hood" to PWAs.
> Presumably React Native apps do something to that extent?
Not in the background they don't, no.
> Or, if they don't, whatever optimization they use
They don't have one. There is no optimization they can do to run JS in the background. Push notifications in a React Native app either use native code or rely on declarative payloads sent from the server.