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Progressive Web Application Development by Example
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Progressive Web Application Development by Example

by Chris Love
July 2018
Intermediate to advanced
354 pages
8h 51m
English
Packt Publishing
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Testing the add to homescreen experience in Chrome

The developer experience would not be complete without the ability to test the add to homescreen experience. Chrome has added tooling which allows you to see how your web manifest file is interpreted and manually trigger the prompt.

Launch Chrome's developer tools by using F12 and select the Application tab. There are many choices to help you debug various aspects of a progressive web application. Under Application, there is a Manifest choice. This will display the properties of your web manifest file, including each icon. This is a quick way for you to determine if your manifest is interpreted correctly, as you can see in the following screenshot:

There is also a link to manually trigger ...

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ISBN: 9781787125421