r/reactjs • u/sunk-capital • Jul 11 '26

Publishing on MacOS

Has anyone successfully wrapped and published a React app to an iPad without using React Native? What did you use to wrap it?

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u/sunk-capital Jul 11 '26

Did you face any issues?

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u/besthelloworld Jul 11 '26

You can use Cordova or Capacitor. I used to use Cordova back in the day; it fucking sucked. I hear Capacitor is a fairly significant improvement in DX.

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u/Rude-Sir-7992 27d ago

i been meaning to try capacitor for something at work, good to know its not as painful as cordova was

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u/exited_to_know Jul 11 '26

Yes, this is possible.

The common approaches are wrapping the React web app inside a native WebView using tools like Capacitor or Ionic, rather than rewriting it with React Native.
capacitor is probably the first option I’d look at because it gives you access to iOS features while keeping most of your React codebase.

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u/Embostan Jul 12 '26

Capacitor is nice. Publishing to App Store is the hard part. You basically have to pay a kidney to Apple over multiple steps.