In my previous post in this series, I finally got a working service worker up and running. I made it happen thanks to the life saving node module sw-precache.
The next, and maybe the most important, step is to register a service worker. This has been yet another pain, which is the reason why three weeks has passed since the latest installment in this series.
Phew! The previous part was horrible, so let’s do something a bit more easy today. (Famous last words?)
The Lighthouse report complains about this:
Address bar does not…
Progressive Web Apps(PWA) are gaining a lot of popularity these day, and with one of the updates…
People sometimes claim that the web and native apps are converging. I disagree. I think the process is more like chiasmus in the sense that we will end up with an app-like web and a web-like app ecosystem but they’ll still be…
In the previous post I showed how the files of a web application can be cached locally to shorten the start up time and enable offline use.
In the first part I described how progressive web apps will change the way mobile applications are made. In this second part I will go into more details with working code samples for implementing offline…
I heard the term ‘progressive web app’ the first time almost a year ago and I thought this could be making big change in how mobile apps are made. I had made some native Android apps as a hobby and I had been involved…
I have been aware of Progressive Web Apps (PWA) for quite some time now beacause I am closely following the development of the Ionic Framework and they have been very actively supporting this idea.