Mobile Web Weekly August 30, 2017   #173
Chris Brandrick recommends
Where in the World is Mobile Development? — A global view of where mobile development happens based on Stack Overflow data.
Jason Punyon
Brian Rinaldi recommends
Migrating from Cordova to NativeScript — A look at why NativeScript reduces the number of compromises required when building hybrid apps with tools like Cordova.
Telerik Developer Network
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Brian Rinaldi recommends
iOS 11 Safari Will Turn AMP Links Back Into Regular Ones When Sharing — iOS 11 will transform Google AMP links back into their original forms when sharing a story.
The Verge
Holly Schinsky recommends
A Progressive Roadmap for your Progressive Web App — A major benefit of Progressive Web Apps is that you can start implementing features right away and roll the rest out incrementally. Read on about how this approach was taken by Cloudfour.
CloudFour
Holly Schinsky recommends
Hybrid Development Is How We Give Our Teams of Three Superpowers — How three people at Basecamp launched a major new feature across five platforms in six weeks because of their hybrid-development ‘superpowers.’
Signal v. Noise
Brian Rinaldi recommends
Progressive Web Apps and Web Push API — Part 1 of a series (part 2 and part 3 are already online) covering how to enable push notification messages to all clients on web or mobile instances of a PWA.
Brian Clark
Holly Schinsky recommends
Testing in Ionic: Configure Existing Projects for Testing — Step by step instructions on how to configure your Ionic projects for unit and end to end testing.
Leif Wells
Holly Schinsky recommends
Developing Ionic Apps in WebStorm — WebStorm is a popular (commercial) IDE made by JetBrains.
Ekaterina Prigara
Brian Rinaldi recommends
How to Use Deep Linking in Ionic 1 Apps with the Ionic Native Deeplinks Plugin
Nikola Brežnjak
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State of Production Database Performance 2017 — In this report we explore and definitively answer whether MySQL or PostgreSQL is truly faster than the other.
VividCortex

Holly Schinsky recommends
Where Does Authentication Fit in a React Native App?
Gosha Arinich
Chris Brandrick recommends
Gridzilla: A Responsive, Mobile-First Flexbox Grid
Mostafa Fouad
Holly Schinsky recommends
Will the 'Real' Web Developer Please Stand Up? — Why Progressive Web Apps are the first genuine attempt at kicking amateur coders out of their comfort-zone.
Attila Vágó