The browser engines, as well as the hardware components in smartphones, have dramatically improved in the last decade. The web platform has also standardized many APIs required for mobile development. Network bandwidths have had a major uptick. Just like Electron in the last 5 years has become the standard way for developing desktop apps, the time is ripe for web technologies to put the strong foot forward in mobile app development.
Web Views Are Out of Fashion
WebViews were vogue in the early days of mobile development. The original iPhone had support for pinning websites on the home page and that was the only way to add applications to the device. There was no App Store and no native development. By 2009, everyone was building a mobile version of their website optimized for smaller screen sizes. PhoneGap was a new and promising technology that could make mobile development easier by helping us write once and use multiple times — the same software could run on the iPhone, Android, and the upcoming Windows phones. Even in the App Store, many apps were wrappers placed over the website to get an entry in the search results.
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