May 2026
Intermediate
598 pages
10h 39m
English
As web developers, we can build beautiful, functional, complex web apps of all kinds. However, until recently there has been a clear divide between what a web app can do versus what a native app can do. A new class of apps called Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) is helping to bridge that divide by enabling us to add native-like capabilities, offline access, and installability to our web applications. A PWA is a web application that takes advantage of native app features while retaining all the characteristics you expect from a web application.
In this chapter, you will learn what defines a PWA, and how to convert a standard web application into a PWA by adding a web app manifest and a service ...
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