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2. Web App Manifest

Carlos Rojas1  
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Medellin, Colombia
 

The manifest file is a way to tell web browsers, and especially mobile devices, how to show your app. It is basically a JSON file in which you specify many properties along with their values.

Creating Our Manifest

In Chapter 1, we created the manifest file with a generator. In this chapter, we create it from scratch to acquire an understanding of its properties.

To begin, we create a file in the root at the same level of the main entry (usually index.html) with the name manifest.json and add
{}

Our file is now ready, but we need to add some properties so that web and mobile ...

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