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The best option is probably Flutter right now: https://flutter.dev/

If you don't mind writing the UI native, sharing only business logic code, Kotlin is an option: https://kotlinlang.org/docs/multiplatform.html#kotlin-multip...

Kotlin also can do the UI if you use Compose: https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/compose-multiplatform/ ... however, iOS support is still in alpha, and Web is "experimental". If you're not willing to cope with that (expect to have to change your code as they develop the framework) then Flutter is the way as it's pretty stable already on all platforms.

If you already know Typescript and React, you may also consider React Native (but I can't attest to its performance on iOS or anywhere else): https://reactnative.dev/

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I would also add Tauri to the list as they now support mobile as well https://v2.tauri.app/blog/tauri-2-0-0-beta/

I think all cross platform frameworks come with some kind of drawbacks and in most cases, learning about the underlying native platforms is unavoidable (like widgets, visionOS support etc).

So I wouldn’t worry too much or get into a FOMO decision block - I’d pick the one that feels most fun and fits your use case.

A long time ago, nativescript[1] seemed to be a strong alternative to reactnative. Is that still the case?

[1] https://nativescript.org/

If you use oidc, you can't use Flutter with web or desktop as build targets. It requires a feature that isn't supported by Flutter on those platforms.

The one flutter website I have come across is an absolute piece of garbage. Completely destroys the ability to modify or even inspect the HTML source. See for yourself

https://sunrisetv.ch/de/vod/1/details/vod/crid:~~2F~~2Fog.li...

Why would the ability to modify HTML matter at all? Most users don't even know what HTML is, much less how to open the dev console.

Yeah, why does it even matter if you can control a page? Let’s just make it a fucking canvas, power users and those who care about web experience can go to hell.

Regular users know how to install an extension that interacts with the DOM, though

You can export the flutter build as HTML, but the point with flutter is not to be a ”website”, it’s supposed to be seen as a ”web-app”.

If you are going to create simple static homepage or interactive website, I don’t think Flutter is the right tool. Full fledged cross-platform applications is what Flutter is meant for.

I agree, who cares if a website supports accessibility, no one in the world is vision impaired and uses screen readers right? right?

That's not even my point.

Websites should still support accessability, I would even go as far to say it's a must. I just don't want people to mix up web-applications with websites. I've seen some people create a simple "websites" with Flutter which is totally pointless because it could just been created with html + css.

There is also a section in the Flutter docs that talks about accessability and how you can create accessable apps but I don't know how well it translates to Flutter web.

https://docs.flutter.dev/ui/accessibility-and-internationali...

And it has laggy scrolling. What’s the benefit?

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