It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan. — Eleanor Roosevelt
PWA (Progressive Web Apps) have been with us for some time now. Yet, each time I try explaining it to clients, the same question pops up: "Will my users be able to install the app using app stores?" The answer has traditionally been no, but this changed with Chrome 72 which shipped a new feature called TWA (Trusted Web Activities).
… Read articleTrusted Web Activities are a new way to integrate your web-app content such as your PWA with yourAndroid app
Andy Bell wrote up his thoughts about the whole web versus native app debate which I think is super interesting. It was hard to make it through the post because I was nodding so aggressively as I read:
… Read articleThe whole idea of competing with native apps seems pretty daft to me, too. The web gives us so much for free that app developers could only dream of, like URLs and the ability to publish to the entire world for free,
Sometimes the seesaw of web tech is fascinating. Service workers have arrived, and beyond offline networking (read Jeremy's book) which is possibly their best feature, they can enable push notifications via the Push API.
I totally get the push (pun intended) to make that happen. There is an omnipresent sentiment that we want the web to win, as there should be in this industry. Losing on the web means losing to native apps on all the … Read article
Amberley Romo read a ton about PWAs in order to form her own solid understanding.
… Read article“Progressive web app” (PWA) is both a general term for a new philosophy toward building websites and a specific term with an established set of three explicit, testable, baseline requirements.
As a general term, the PWA approach is characterized by striving to satisfy the following set of attributes:
- Responsive
- Connectivity independent
- App-like-interactions
- Fresh
- Safe
- Discoverable
- Re-engageable
- Installable
- Linkable
One of the sessions from the Chrome Dev Summit, hosted by Das Surma and Daniel Walmsley. It's not so much about WordPress as it is about CMS powered sites that aren't really "apps", if there is such a thing, and the possibility of turning that site into a Progressive Web AppSite.
I find the CMS + PWA combo interesting because:
The other day I was watching an interview with Ade Oshineye where he discussed his work on the PWA Directory at Google, a showcase of progressive web apps. And it’s pretty neat!
It lists a whole bunch of PWAs out there and you can filter them by Lighthouse metrics – that’s the auditing tool from Google that scores a web app and gives us developers the ability to improve them.… Read article
I hadn't considered the fact that if you're fingerprinting your assets (e.g. style.987987090897.css) to take advantage of browser cache, you'll need to update your Service Worker every time you do that. But I guess you've got a build step anyway, so it can be updated in both places:
… Read article... we used a NodeJS module called Stacify to automatically create new version numbers in all the places when a file is changed.
Sally Jenkinson:
Progressive Web Apps (sometimes referred to as PWAs, because everything in tech needs an acronym) is the encapsulating term for websites following a certain approach, that meet particular technical criteria. The "app" involvement in the name isn’t an accident – these creations share much of the functionality that you’ll find in native experiences – but really, they're just websites.
It's like if you build a website that is so damn good, you get to have a home … Read article