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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…

JavaScript Start-up Performance

As web developers, we know how easy it is to end up with web page bloat. But loading a webpage is much…

Testing Service Workers

In this post we’ll be looking at some of the approaches being taken to test service workers in the latest service…

Just make it look pretty…

The assumption that designers and developers sole role is to either make things look pretty or to be a cog in a machine with no soul.

Pretty Printing

Myself and Addy spent a few hours banging our heads against a wall trying to understand why our samples using our new Service…

Offline Storage for Progressive Web Apps

2016 will hopefully be the year we build for network resilience.

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…

Improving mobile web conversions just by optimizing web forms

Fitness Apps with Web Bluetooth

With the launch of Chrome 56, users can select nearby Bluetooth Low Energy devices to provide to web…