Chapter 11. Progressive Web App Troubleshooting

Whenever I give a talk about Progressive Web Apps (PWAs), there’s normally a Q&A session at the end when the audience asks questions or proposes ideas. Often I get asked useful questions that are worth sharing with a wider audience.

In this chapter, I’ve put together a list of some of the questions I regularly get asked about PWAs and Service Workers and tried to include the most accurate answers I can. Some of these questions may seem obvious, and some not so obvious, but I hope you find them useful.

So here goes, in no particular order: a list of helpful tips, tricks, and gotchas that can help you when you build your next PWA.

11.1. Add to Homescreen

The Add to Homescreen (A2HS) functionality ...

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