Lightning talks: Building Micro Web Apps in native apps

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Claims that embedding a small React app in a native webview gives instant features but shows where it breaks: cold start latency from fetching HTML then data, keyboard and transition quirks on iOS/Android, and heavy bridging overhead whenever native integration is needed. The prototype uses a shared web codebase and proves easy to deploy and reuse across touchpoints, yet performance and platform-specific integration errors make it unreliable for complex UIs.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 1:44Micro Web Apps
3. 2:44Integrate a Webview
4. 3:42Performance

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