Top 5 Frameworks for Building Progressive Web Apps

Henry Nash
Digital Fitser Australia
3 min readOct 25, 2019

The rising popularity of progressive web apps makes it important to create applications using JavaScript, HTML, CSS that has a high-performance level and usability. This article will shed light into the various frameworks available for building progressive web apps.

The concept of PWA or Progressive Web Apps have been on the rise for quite a while now, and they are in the peak of popularity, owing to the capacity of providing smartphone users with the most convincing user experience, unlike native apps.

If you are in the search for a reliable progressive web app development company in Melbourne, there are quite a few things that you may want to know to have some better knowledge and idea about what it is and how exactly it helps.

There is an ample number of frameworks that are used to make a progressive web app that gives you an opportunity to reap its benefits in the long run. It’s one of the major advantages is that it is utterly adaptable in various devices, platforms, and even hardware. Not to mention, the ability to get businesses on top of the search engine.

Progressive Web Apps or PWA

Unlike the old version of native apps, PWA has been able to make its mark because of the high adaptation ability and offering the most immersive user experience. These days, search engines like Opera and Chrome support PWA entirely.

The browser in Samsung mobiles also supports PWA, at the same time Apple Inc. has come up with a key feature, ‘’service workers”.

Frameworks of Progressive Web App development

Vue.js

New to the programming field? Then Vue framework is something you may not have heard about already as this framework is way newer than that of Angular and React.

It features the fastest growing library across all the known frameworks. This framework is able to decode the code while delivering rendering at high speed as well as simplistic coding.

Angular

This framework has been introduced in 2009 by Google, which utilizes the JavaScript to create robust and consistent PWA. With the introduction of version 5, this framework has become easier to use for developers as long as they do not require upscale expertise for building PWA with Angular.

Ionic

This framework was introduced as one of the open-source SDKs and uses the Apache Cordova and Angular framework. The framework possesses components’ library for Android and iOS version. It enables the developers to build website pages running inside a device’s browser with WebView. It causes web pages to look like a native app.

Polymer

Polymer is an open-source framework that is also created by Google, offering a comprehensive range of web components, tools and templates as well to simplify PWA development technique.

This framework harnesses CSS or HTML or JS language to make the framework an independent one.

PWABuilder

This framework was developed by Microsft which is also an open-source as well as community guided framework supporting the Android and iOS app development quality. This framework is the one to provide developers with the fastest ways to create PWA components among all devices and platforms too.

Coming to an end, while deciding on the frameworks to choose for PWA development, the decision is up to you based on the resources, skills and knowledge of developers that you are holding responsible for creating such apps.

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