Hotwire Native vs NativePHP: How Web Frameworks are Conquering Mobile and Desktop Very often I find myself talking to developers who have successfully launched a web application. They are getting traffic, users are happy, but eventually, the inevitable happens. A user emails them: "When is the mobile app coming out? Do you have a Mac desktop app?" If you are a solo developer, learning Swift for iOS, Kotlin for Android, and C++ for Windows is impossible. You want to use the language you already know. The two biggest backend communities - Ruby on Rails and Laravel (PHP) —both realized this pain point. They both created incredible, massive open-source tools to solve it. Rails gave us Hotwire Native , and the Laravel community gave us NativePHP . But if you look under the hood, these two tools took completely opposite architectural paths. Here is my breakdown of how Hotwire Native and NativePHP work, the pros and cons of each, and why they solve two very different problems. 1.…