This is the repo for the dev.to iOS app. It is still a work in progress, but getting there!
Design ethose
We will grow to include more native code over time, but for now we are taking the approach of native shell/web views. This approach lost favor early in iOS days, but I believe it is a very valid approach these days. It is inspired by how Basecamp does things. Our tech stack is a bit different, but the ideas are the same.
By leveraging wkwebviews as much as possible, I think we can make this all pretty awesome and sync up with our web dev work pretty smoothly. And where it makes sense, we can re-implement certain things fully native, or build entirely native features. Life's a journey, not a destination.
If you want to help dev.to out a bit, feel free to seek out some language/framework sites that could use a DEV link and add them to the relevant pages.
Looking to get the DEV iOS app out the door if anyone wants to clone it and play around and find/issues.
DEV Community iOS App
DEV iOS💖
This is the repo for the dev.to iOS app. It is still a work in progress, but getting there!
Design ethose
We will grow to include more native code over time, but for now we are taking the approach of native shell/web views. This approach lost favor early in iOS days, but I believe it is a very valid approach these days. It is inspired by how Basecamp does things. Our tech stack is a bit different, but the ideas are the same.
m.signalvnoise.com/basecamp-3-for-...
signalvnoise.com/posts/3743-hybrid...
signalvnoise.com/posts/3766-hybrid...
youtube.com/watch?v=SWEts0rlezA
By leveraging
wkwebviewsas much as possible, I think we can make this all pretty awesome and sync up with our web dev work pretty smoothly. And where it makes sense, we can re-implement certain things fully native, or build entirely native features. Life's a journey, not a destination.Contributing
What about DEV-android???
I'll also add this here for anyone looking for little web dev things to do. I added this as a comment for a newbie looking for simpler projects:
If you want to help dev.to out a bit, feel free to seek out some language/framework sites that could use a DEV link and add them to the relevant pages.
Similar to these PRs:
Thanks to you or anyone else who wants to do some of this! 🙏
Also, if you see that the date inside of the comment is out of place, that's an issue with our liquid tags that need to be worked out. PRs welcome 😄