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		jeremyjh on March 26, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Private client-side-only PWAs are hard, but now Ap... They already explained that they are using Cordova. This bridges native APIs to web apps. What you deploy is a native app through the app store.

DaiPlusPlus on March 27, 2020 [–]

Right, but Cordova isn’t PWA.

roywashere on March 27, 2020 | [–]

Sure! In a PWA, storing login tokens in the keyring would not be possible. So as I said, on iOS the localstorage (and cookies) would be cleared in low disk space conditions anyway. So the PWA experience was already not good!

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