<story><title>Capacitor: Universal Web Applications</title><url>https://capacitor.ionicframework.com</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>yesimahuman</author><text>Capacitor creator&amp;#x2F;Ionic co-founder here. Didn’t expect to see this on the front page! Disclaimer: it’s still alpha.&lt;p&gt;We’re building Capacitor based on feedback from the Ionic community to improve our ability to move across platforms such as App Store&amp;#x2F;web&amp;#x2F;electron, make it easier to interact with Native SDKs, mix web and native UI, and manage native app projects&amp;#x2F;tooling.&lt;p&gt;One feature I&amp;#x27;m really excited about is having Web UI implementations of many Native experiences when running on the web&amp;#x2F;electron. Here&amp;#x27;s an example of how the `Camera` plugin looks when running in the web: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;maxlynch&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;961749127657910272&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;maxlynch&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;961749127657910272&lt;/a&gt;. This uses our new Ionic Web Components so you can easily use these controls with low overhead even if you aren&amp;#x27;t using Ionic.&lt;p&gt;We hope Capacitor will be useful to other web developers that want to build mobile and desktop web apps, even if they aren’t using Ionic, and we’re building support for hitting the hybrid sweet spot of native UI shell (nav&amp;#x2F;menus) with web content.&lt;p&gt;Capacitor will eventually be replacing Cordova in Ionic’s toolchain so it’s going to be a core part of the experience.</text></comment>
<story><title>Capacitor: Universal Web Applications</title><url>https://capacitor.ionicframework.com</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jacquesc</author><text>Glad to see they&amp;#x27;re moving beyond Cordova&amp;#x27;s main issue: trying to fully automate the native build processes with disastrous results.&lt;p&gt;I am perfectly happy opening up Xcode to build and configure. Same with Android Studio. Trying to find a &amp;quot;Cordova solution&amp;quot; to very common build tasks was a continual nightmare for me.&lt;p&gt;I ended up just switching to React Native to wrap a progressive web app. It makes no sense since I&amp;#x27;m only using a single React component (UIWebView), but the build &amp;#x2F; deploy process was just so much easier to manage than the mess of Cordova scripts and outdated&amp;#x2F;broken plugins.</text></comment>