Progressive Web Application Development by Example

Creating a Home Screen Experience with a Web Manifest

Progressive web apps make a website feel like a native app. For a business stakeholder, this gives them the opportunity to use a free app store to engage customers. For real users, it means that the sites they routinely visit can be installed without any friction. Either way, it is a marketing opportunity to increase engagement by delivering a better user experience and an natural way to place their brand's icon in the customer's most important location: their homescreen.

Each platform (operating system and browser) implements a homescreen and how the application is launched in their own way, but most involve some sort of bookmarking process and opening experience driven by the web manifest ...