17 engineers on Hacker News describe using Apache Cordova first-hand: 1 endorse it, 4 regret it, 2 are mixed.
“We were initially developing the game using cordova but were taken by the performance issues.”
regret · personal · syaau · 2017-09-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I'm using Cordova to wrap my game and distribute on the app stores and it's been a breeze”
endorse · personal · thebosz · 2016-12-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Granted, our applications may be different and yes, Cordova, if not done right, can be excruciatingly slow. But we have managed well.”
mixed · production · 2 yr · hliyan · 2015-07-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“It runs decently well in a cordova app, but i do find somethings lag.”
mixed · personal · agmcleod · 2015-07-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Not to mention you have so little control over device itself, only thing you can do is rely on Cordova plugins (which are horrible to begin with). Never again.”
regret · production · romanovcode · 2014-02-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Used Phonegap on 2 projects and I have to say, never again.”
regret · production · isnie · 2012-07-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“PhoneGap was just too slow for many options and did not support the low level audio functionality we needed.”
regret · production · jamroom · 2011-04-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We run a production-grade mobile app (Cordova) on old low-powered client-provided devices including RF guns (Android 5 to 9)”
neutral · production · Pr0ject217 · 2022-09-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we are packaging it up with Cordova for those people that want something from an app store.”
neutral · production · jillesvangurp · 2022-05-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“A couple of years ago we switched an Electron/Cordova application to the native OS Webview”
neutral · production · pier25 · 2021-03-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have built apps in ... phonegap/Cordova/ionic capacitor (cross platform web w/ native plugins)”
neutral · production · lukevp · 2020-06-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“For us, we want to use the web stack so our stuff works across all platforms. So we use Cordova.”
neutral · production · EGreg · 2018-12-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“For mobile, we use Cordova and package the app up for various platforms.”
neutral · production · eerikkivistik · 2017-05-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Have a half dozen live projects in it now, including Cordova apps (but not Electron apps).”
neutral · production · chadporter · 2016-11-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use it in combination with Cordova and some other stuff like Haml Coffee Assets and Fastclick.js.”
neutral · production · PascalW · 2014-11-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using PhoneGap for a while now. It'd be really cool if similar API's were available without the native wrapper.”
neutral · personal · IanDrake · 2011-12-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?