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This is great! I built a native. Macos client that I actually sold in the AppStore a while ago. It did everything was native except rendering of the article but I was just using plain web view for that part. The pain was keeping but synced with changes on HN. I still have a personal build that I use on a daily basis. I still have the landing page up which warning, looks awful on mobile https://mackernews.com/ But... - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago
Oh by "Web Environment" you mean "my machine" lol! I already got caught by this - a https://github.com/nativefier/nativefier app wrapping Youtube Music doesn't work, because Google detects somehow that you are not using a trusted browser and refuses to serve. - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago
AFAIK there's only nativefier and peppermintos' ice. Source: 11 months ago
Install Nativefier from Terminal using the command npm install -g nativefier. Source: 11 months ago
It's still not quite the same as Chromium webapps, which are just isolated windows in the same core process -- FFPWA spins up entire other instances of Firefox -- and in effect operates more like Nativefier (with Firefox instead of Electron/Chromium). Source: about 1 year ago
Take a look at this: https://github.com/nativefier/nativefier. Source: about 1 year ago
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