The present disclosure is directed techniques for bootstrap management. A method includes: upon an initial launch of an application on a client device, fetching, from a server and using a native component of the application, content for loading a web component of the application on the client device; determining whether a bootstrap management mode is enabled on the client device; and responsive to the bootstrap management mode is enabled and in response to the web component being launched: receiving, at the native component and from the web component, a manifest and a request for bootstrapping resources; caching, by the native component, the manifest from the web component; fetching, from the server and using the native component, the bootstrapping resources requested by the web component; caching, by the native component, the fetched bootstrapping resources in the memory; and providing, by the native component, the fetched bootstrapping resources to the web component.