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Comment by Pepe1vo | Hacker News Reader

Congrats on the release! From the looks of it Capacitor[0] has quite a big lead on in terms of support for native APIs (secure storage, SSL pinning, biometrics, etc) but hopefully they'll catch up quickly and avoid some of the mistakes Capacitor has made.

Definitely keeping an eye on this.

[0] https://capacitorjs.com/

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That is because Capacitor is just a fork of Apache Cordova, which is quite mature and stable.

Hi, I really like your app Mochi! The design is wonderful, intuitive and leagues ahead of anki. The app truly deserves more attention.

I noticed that the FAQ does not cover where data is stored on android, where is it? Asking because I want to sync it's data between devices with Syncthing.

I'd like to support the app eventually I but can't right now. So I want to take the Obsidian approach of syncing the data myself, thank you.

capacitor looks pretty good, what are those 'mistakes' you refer to

The build process is very fragile for both Android and iOS. Basically, a patch version update of any of the capacitor libs or plugins has a pretty high chance of wrecking your build pipeline.

Also the ecosystem is not in the best shape; the quality of libraries is allover the place, lots of unmaintained ones or ones that only support older SDK versions of Android/iOS. Not sure it's entirely fair to blame CapacitorJS for this, but it's nonetheless the reality when developing Capacitor applications.

All-in-all Capacitor is pretty great though, definitely one of the most productive ways to develop high quality cross-mobile apps.

what kind of mistakes did capacitor make?

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