Beginning work
Welcome to the world of Progressive Web Applications.
In the preceding scenario, the problems your friend was describing are exactly the problems PWAs (Progressive Web Applications) are crafted to solve.
The first problem is that many users will be visiting your web page under poor network conditions. They may be a Silicon Valley technocrat on their iPhone in a coffee shop with bad WiFi, or they may be a Bangladeshi villager in a remote location. Either way, they will not stick around if your site isn't optimized for them, for everyone.
How fast your application loads--its performance--thus becomes an accessibility concern. PWAs solve this by loading quickly the first time, and even more quickly every time after that. We'll ...
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