Is there a way to submit a reactjs PWA on Google Play?

Question

I want to use the "Write once, run everywhere"

So I created a PWA in reactjs with create-react-app.

My app works greatly, and I can put it on the home screen of my mobile from the website. However, I want to be visible on mobile stores too (starting with Google Play).

I tried:

• Microsoft pwaBuilder which doesn't seems to work (the downloaded bundle is not recognized by Google play)
• Packaging my app in Cordova (by copying files of the reactjs build in www) but I'm stuck with a white screen like some other people (publishing PWA on app stores : google play and ios itunes, Reactjs with cordova)

Is there a way today to deploy a reactjs PWA app on a store? That would realize my great dream about progressive web apps :)

Answer 1

The problem was about the create-react-app PUBLIC_URL environment variable which was unfilled.

With a cordova run browser, all seems to be ok as browser seems to be more permissive in the path resolution. I had as example a /favicon.ico

But when i was doing cordova run android, path were not found at runtime.

By creating a new file .env and put in it:

PUBLIC_URL=.

resolved the path error and the application works now well!

The advice of Sergio running on device with chrome chrome://inspect helped me a lot