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The Website vs. Web App Dichotomy Doesn't Exist | jakelazaroff.com (jakelazaroff.com)
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[โ€“] VonReposti@feddit.dk 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

As a software developer a website is not an app and a web app is not an app. A web app is a hybrid solution and calling it just an app is pure confusion for the end users. Always refer to your web app as a website for end users unless you want them to literally install an application.

[โ€“] masterspace@lemmy.ca -2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Just saying 'nuh uh they're different' is not an argument or a rebuttal to my point that the code running them is literally identical.

When you're using Figma online that's just a website? That's not literally the entire Figma app running in web assembly?

Yeah, the method of how a user gets a web app installed is different, but there is no real difference between the actual code of a web app and a natively installed app.