How to Convert a React App to a Mobile app and Persist session cookies using React-Native Webview or a PWA
In this post I am switching gears from my general cloud technology posts towards a bit of app development. Recently while I was working on one of my side projects, developing a React app, I faced an issue to persist the cookies on the app when opened on mobile. I wanted to convert the React app to an installable android app and provide a persistent login for the user. I didn’t want to develop a whole new app for mobile using React Native and just re-use the React web app which I built, as an app on mobile.
In this post I will be going through the process and steps which I followed to make it work for me. I figured this may help someone having similar issue. These are the parts I will be covering in this post:
Convert the React web app to a mobile app using React-Native and Webview (I will cover an Android app)
Handle Cookies from Webview Convert the React web app to an installable PWA(Progressive Web Application) via TWA(Trusted Web Activity)
Handle cookies in the PWA/TWA
More details can be found on my post here: