https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Progressive_web...
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Progressive_web...
That's not to say PWA's can't be successful! I've found the opposite is true — that Ionic app I referred to early had an App Store rating of 4.8 stars by thousands of reviewers. I wish more people knew this secret.
I was and am responsible for setting up a fairly large Vie app as a PWA with capacitor and I’d say it’s been a mixed bag. The dev experience is not great, but to be honest I blame iOS and macOS for that just as much as capacitor. Sometimes stuff just doesn’t work, and the community libraries to use native features are missing obvious stuff. For example, the capacitor library for working with iOS push notifications is a complete mess, and it’s missing some very basic features, like managing badge numbers in an even slightly sane way.
bridge.webView?.allowsBackForwardNavigationGestures = true;
We just call it on startup and it seems to work.
Also, most folks refuse or don't know how to add a "web app" to their Home Screen. Launching in the App Store gives you visibility in both discovery and every day browsing.