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Progressive Web App Libraries in Production

Two years ago, our team at Google started work on JavaScript libraries to reduce the…

The New and Improved Add to Home screen

Chrome first introduced the “Add to Home screen” banners in Chrome 51. This was a big step for the web as it provided users the ability to easily keep a favorite site on their Home screen, much like native apps. We’ve heard from developers like Alibaba that…

Tracking PWA events with Google Analytics

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.

Long live the Desktop

In his Ode to the Desktop, Dion writes:

I consumed more and created less

I’ve written down similar thoughts many years ago, and I’m glad we’re having this discussion again. The above summarizes the biggest flaw of the new and shiny…

Why “Progressive Web Apps vs. native” is the wrong question to ask

Even though PWAs have been around for more than a year now, there are still a bunch of misconceptions about them: <strike>they only work in Chrome, they can’t be as smooth as native apps, there’s no full-screen mode…