NextJS SSR in Capacitor — How to ship it — What we ship

fixit_fiona

we use Next.js with server-side rendering (SSR) and we'd like to wrap our app with Capacitor.js so that we can ship it to both Android and iOS devices. Sadly, this only seems to be possible when using static site generation (SSG) and I cannot find anything on how to even attempt to make SSR work. A couple of threads seem to hint that this is possible: How to package a hosted web app with Ionic Capacitor (not sure what type of rendering is used...

Originally asked by Miguel Marin on Stack Exchange (stackoverflow) (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

I am currently investigating the same. Looking to wrap an existing responsive web application based on nextjs using SSR. in this blog I read in the comments that you can essentially point capacitor to any existing URL (so also your already running website). I have not tested it though yet. My biggest questions right now would be: Could we still use native functions (such as push notifications, which is one of the main reasons of bundling it as an app) then? probably would need to integrate the required libs in my existing web app and check if we are running in capacitor environment somehow. How does Apple handle such cases upon submissions? I have read that they do reject apps that mainly...

Full answer by Daniel: https://stackoverflow.stackexchange.com/a/70211317 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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