This article was co-authored by Julian Toledo. When a user visits PWA Directory for the first time, a Service Worker is installed and the Application Shell is cached. On the following visits, the first render is accelerated by serving the cached shell from the Service Worker. …

With the launch of Chrome 56, users can select nearby Bluetooth Low Energy devices to provide to web sites that use the Web Bluetooth API. This opens the opportunity to create types of web applications that were only available to native platforms. For a great introduction on how to implement…

Progressive Web Apps allows applications to offer functionality that weren't possible before. Some of those include adding offline behaviour to a page, or allowing users to launch a website from the home screen. When creating PWA-Directory, one of our goals was to enable those features and measure how much they…

Chrome Custom Tabs is a Chrome feature that allows developers open 3rd party web content from their application, with big performance improvements and a customized UI, creating a more engaging an seamless experience. It has been out in the wild for a few months now. During this time, we’ve seen…