Make any web page a desktop application
Matt Pocock on Twitter / X
I want:A Desktop app I can open (on Windows)That runs a local dev server on localhost:3000And turns the app into a desktop appDoes this exist?— Matt Pocock (@mattpocockuk) July 28, 2025
Native Apps are Doomed
From now on, I won’t be building any more native apps. All my apps going forward will be progressive web apps. Progressive web apps are web…
Native Development
I’ve been on a long-term quest to find a simple, fast, and user-friendly way to develop native applications for a variety of platforms, and this page holds ...
Native Apps Should Be Avoided Whenever Possible — No One's Happy
Why native apps have become privacy liabilities, and why the browser is almost always the better choice.
Add a web app manifest | Articles | web.dev
The web app manifest is a simple JSON file that tells the browser how your web app should behave.
Elanis/web-to-desktop-framework-comparison
An objective comparison of multiple frameworks that allow us to "transform" our web apps to desktop applications.
Introducing Web Applets: build your first AI-native app · Luma
Rupert here - I'll introduce you to the Web Applets open standard & SDK, and how to use it to create rich, graphical client-side apps that can be used by both…
EXE
A build tool to pack your web app as a single executable binary with zero runtime dependencies.
What does it look like for the web to lose?
There is always some degree of tension between “native apps” and “the web” as platforms. If you’re going to write a native app for Android devices, well, I’ll qu…
Svelte Native • The Svelte Mobile Development Experience
Svelte Native is a mobile application framework powered by Svelte — build mobile apps using the friendly web framework you already know
From Web to Native: Building Apps with SvelteKit & Capacitor
A step-by-step tutorial on integrating CapacitorJS with SvelteKit. Convert your website into an Android/iOS app.
Designing Offline-First Web Apps
We assume our users are like us—with the latest devices, the most recent software, and the fastest connections. And while we may maintain a veritable zoo of older devices and browsers for testing, …
