Context
We currently ship our hybrid mobile app with Cordova. Cordova is increasingly legacy (plugin ecosystem, build tooling, webview defaults), and ongoing maintenance is harder than modern alternatives. Capacitor offers a more current native bridge, simpler plugin model, and a smoother path for incremental native work.
Goals
Replace Cordova runtime/build with Capacitor while keeping app behavior stable.
Maintain existing iOS/Android release pipelines (or improve them).
Reduce plugin/build fragility and unblock future native enhancements.
Non-goals (initial migration)
Major UI redesign.
Large refactors of web app architecture (unless required for compatibility).
Switching JS framework/build system (only adapt where necessary).
Context
We currently ship our hybrid mobile app with Cordova. Cordova is increasingly legacy (plugin ecosystem, build tooling, webview defaults), and ongoing maintenance is harder than modern alternatives. Capacitor offers a more current native bridge, simpler plugin model, and a smoother path for incremental native work.
Goals
Replace Cordova runtime/build with Capacitor while keeping app behavior stable.
Maintain existing iOS/Android release pipelines (or improve them).
Reduce plugin/build fragility and unblock future native enhancements.
Non-goals (initial migration)
Major UI redesign.
Large refactors of web app architecture (unless required for compatibility).
Switching JS framework/build system (only adapt where necessary).