Progressive Web Application Development by Example

Running PWABuilder locally

If your site is not public, don't worry: you can still take advantage of PWABuilder by running it locally. PWABuilder is actually the second generation of PWA tools produced by Microsoft. In its previous life, it was called Manifold JS, and still uses that engine.

Manifold is a collection of node modules, used by the PWABuilder site, that generate the files needed for your PWA. The Manifold JS components are available both on GitHub (https://github.com/pwa-builder) and npm (https://www.npmjs.com/package/manifoldjs).

You can run PWABuilder directly from the command line. Since it is a node module, you will need Nodejs installed, and so on.

I recommend installing the PWABuilder node library globally:

npm install -g ...