Push is the feature that usually makes founders give up on the PWA route and wrap their Lovable app properly. A web app on iPhone only gets push after the user adds it to the home screen, and almost nobody does. Wrap the same React code in Capacitor and you get real push notifications on iOS and Android. Getting Capacitor push notifications working takes an afternoon if you know the traps, and about three days if you don't.
Here's the version with the traps. (If your reminder only depends on a time the app already knows, like a booking, skip the server entirely and use Capacitor local notifications .)
The token you get on iOS is not the token you think
The official plugin is @capacitor/push-notifications (v8 at the time of writing). You call register() , you listen for the registration event, and you get a token. On Android that's a Firebase Cloud Messaging token. On iOS it's a raw APNs token.
That difference wrecks people.…