Has anyone been following 'Progressive Web Apps'? I came across this site yesterday and honestly this blows my mind, everyone should check it out.
https://whatpwacando.today/ It's got me imagining rich client-side support for a Streams deployment. A site running an instance of streams like https://asf.social could offer its users a one-click install of an asf.social app on their phones or PCs with no app store involved. All of the interactions a user would do on a typical social app could be delivered in a reactive UI, and the ability to take photos, stream videos, geo-tag posts, get notifications, etc... could work on devices that support those features. Perhaps trivializing, but looking at the javascript examples available through that site, I don't think there would be any need for a heavy-weight javascript framework to make this work. We'd just need to provide text/html serializations for the interfaces of each API endpoint that bind the local device APIs to form elements and/or divs with embedded javascript, and those html pages could refer users around pages (endpoints) within the site (or even across sites) just as json-ld responses from the same endpoints do. This would not preclude anyone from using the activitypub client of their choice, just a built-in style-able UI that would be good enough for many users and admins, making the software a full-stack offering instead of purely a back-end. Steve
