Why does Capacitor choose to run the app on a localhost server instead of just from the filesystem.

[tafelnl]

I do not understand what advantages come from using the http://localhost instead of just simply file:///. Can someone explain that to me?

[jcesarmobile]

Using file: protocol to load the app code has a few bugs/problems, like html 5 routing not working, localStorage (or any web storage) can be lost on uri change, on iOS you can't fetch/XHR local files, etc.

All those problems go away if using http/https on Android and a custom scheme on iOS.

[IT-MikeS]

Taking the same approach for similar issues in electron community platform