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Instawork / hyperview

hyperview

Server-driven mobile apps with React Native

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This is a ReactNative app that consumes XML and maps it to ReactNative components, so you're still using those pointlessly complicated technologies, but through a proxy application that abstracts some of the complexity away (https://github.com/instawork/hyperview?tab=readme-ov-file#hy...). When you hit the boundaries of what Hyperview can do, you're going to need to dig into some of the details, but mayhaps you don't need those features. Either way, it's an interesting project, but like everything else it's going to have _some_ drawbacks
In Hyperview – Native mobile apps, as easy as creating a website
Yeah, the moment I read "Serve your app as XML" my brain instinctively began to move on but it's really just HTML-like semantic snippets that remind me of WebComponents. Example: https://github.com/Instawork/hyperview/blob/master/demo/back... However, this warning statement should be in bold at the top: "If your app relies on offline data or local computations, Hyperview won't be the right choice." For that reason, I lean toward https://volt.build/
In Hyperview – Native mobile apps, as easy as creating a website
hyperview is a hypermedia that exposes native mobile features directly within the hypermedia you wouldn't create an internet out of hyperview-apps, rather it is a way for you, a developer of a mobile application, to get the benefits of a hypermedia approach (e.g. versioning becoming much less of an issue, vs. app-store updates) while not giving up on native mobile behavior it is open source, and I think it's one of the most innovative uses of hypermedia I've seen in the last decade: https://github.com/instawork/hyperview
In How did REST come to mean the opposite of REST?

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