Proof Of Concept for potential winds.mobi web client replacement

[MichalBryxi]

As per following line in the README:

If you would like to share your own version that will eventually replace this client, please open an issue that presents your project.

I started tinkering around to see how hard would it be to have somewhat functional parity to the winds-mobi-client-js. It does not seem like a completely ridiculous idea wrt/ scope or time investment. I should have couple of fairly capable people willing to invest their resources into this.

Currently the app is only able to:

1. Query the API for current state of the weather stations and display heaps of them over Interlaken
2. Gain users GPS location and re-center
3. Have some niceties wrt/ PWAs and mobile version

Demo

The app is now deployed on https://winds-mobi-client-web.netlify.app/ and updates with each merge to main.

Screenshots

Screen.Recording.2024-09-04.at.08.57.47.mov

Open questions

PWA / mobile native?

I personally prefer to have web (PWA) version as opposed to native apps, but I've heard people would nowadays rather have native experience. I believe all the functionality we'd need is achievable from PWA and it's less code to maintain (iOS, Android AND web). And if needed, we can make a native wrapper and bundle it as an app either way?

• Is it a good direction to build a PWA?

Official cooperation?

Would it be ok to think about an official cooperation by eventually using the official project (sub)domain? Thinking about https://new.winds.mobi. With possibility to eventually replace https://winds.mobi if the project is successful?

• Use winds.mobi subdomain for hosting?
• Eventually replace "old" winds.mobi app?

Sponsoring?

I would think that the intention of winds.mobi is to stay as commercially independent as possible and love the fact that it's been true. But I talked about few people interested in future development and wanted to ask if backlink to GitHub sponsors / Patreon / whatever would be a no-no or we could figure something out? Obviously with a split to the original team.

• Sustainable development possibility?

[MichalBryxi]

Humble ping. I'm now trying to see if I will get the resources (read: time) to work on this. And although having a frontend running parallel to the official winds.mobi is technically possible, it would be good to know if there is +1 or -1 for those efforts from the official winds.mobi team.