Mobile Web Weekly September 27, 2017   #177
Chris Brandrick recommends
Designing Websites for the iPhone X — Advice from the WebKit team for handling the iPhone X ‘notch’.
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Brian Rinaldi recommends
Progressive Web Apps? No, We Are Building Alien Web Apps — A look at the strategy being used by Conde Nast to integrate PWA features into a site that is server-side rendered and “not appy.”
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Holly Schinsky recommends
The End of Framework Churn — The CEO of Ionic suggests that incompatibility between component models results in framework churn and that Web Components will provide a resolution.
Max Lynch
Brian Rinaldi recommends
Even More Hacker News Progressive Web Apps — New Hacker News Readers as PWA examples include StencilJS, Glimmer, React with create-react-app, vanilla JavaScript, Zuix and Next.js.
Addy Osmani
Chris Brandrick recommends
Greased Lightning: Turning Your Site Into a PWA — Sam Beckham shows us how to get that load time way down using nothing but best practices and a simple service worker.
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Brian Rinaldi recommends
How To Build An Ionic App With a Graphcool Backend
Ashteya Biharisingh
Chris Brandrick recommends
Getting Your Ionic Apps Updated for iOS 11: Checklist — There are a few things you need to do and some steps are different depending on whether you’re using UIWebView or WKWebView.
Max Lynch
Peter Cooper recommends
How to Develop a Cordova Android Plugin
László Csele
Holly Schinsky recommends
What's New in Framework7 V2 Beta — A 5 minute overview of what’s new in the beta version of Framework7 v2.
Timo Ernst
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State of Production Database Performance 2017 — In this report we explore and definitively answer whether MySQL or PostgreSQL is truly faster than the other.
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Chris Brandrick recommends
react-native-firebase: A Firebase Implementation for React Native — A well-tested feature rich Firebase implementation for React Native, supporting iOS & Android.
Invertase
Holly Schinsky recommends
A/B Testing for React Native Apps with CodePush — How to perform A/B Testing using CodePush with React Native to optimize user behavior.
Parashuram N
Chris Brandrick recommends
Tips for Successful App Development with React Native — Some things to consider when starting to work with React Native for mobile app development.
Maz Ahmadi
Brian Rinaldi recommends
Chrome Breaks Visual Viewport — Again — If you use window.innerWidth/Height in any of your sites, it may break in Chrome 61/Android.
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