CategoryPWA

July 30, 2019 — This article concludes a three-part series about the trials and tribulations of designing and writing a basic web application with vanilla JavaScript. In part one we covered the why, part two dealt mostly with the how and this part concludes by looking at how the project was drawn to a close and what was learned from the experience. Read more…

July 25, 2019 — In the first article of this series, your author, a JavaScript novice, had set themselves the goal of designing and coding a basic web app to organize team-based games. In this second part, we are going to concentrate on how the application ‘In/Out’ actually got made. Read more…

July 23, 2019 — You don’t need to be a Computer Science graduate or know a JavaScript framework to create a Progressive Web Application. With some HTML and CSS knowledge and basic competency with JavaScript, you have all the skills you need. Read more…

June 27, 2019 — This tutorial will help you transform an app that doesn’t work offline into a PWA that works offline and shows an update available icon. You’ll also learn how to precache assets with workbox, handle dynamic caching as well as handle updates to your PWA. Read more…

March 8, 2019 — Have you ever considered how much it actually costs to build and maintain a mobile app? When you look at the big picture, you’ll soon realize that mobile apps aren’t a smart investment for most. Read more…

February 13, 2019 — With Progressive Web Apps, you can now use the web to build full-blown apps. Thanks to an enormous amount of new specifications and features, we can do things with the web that you used to need to write native apps for. However, talking to hardware devices was still a bridge too far up till now. Today, Niels Leenheer will introduce you to WebBluetooth. Thanks to this tool, we can now build PWAs that can control your lights, drive a car or even control a drone. Read more…

December 28, 2018 — The mobile web has definitely improved from where it was just a couple years ago. When it comes to the mobile user experience, are mobile websites all that bad? You hear so much about the benefits of building a dedicated native app, but that can become an incredibly costly gamble if users don’t take to it. That said, is the progressive web app the best choice? And will it eventually replace the mobile web and native apps? In this article, Suzanne Scacca explores this idea. Read more…

November 28, 2018 — Throughout this tutorial, Ahmed Bouchefra introduces Angular Router and how you can use it to create client-side apps and Single Page Apps with routing and navigation. You will see how to use the Angular Router to add routing and navigation into our application. Also Ahmed will take a look at different concepts like the Router outlet, routes, and paths and we created a demo to practically show the different concepts. You can access the code from this repository. Read more…

November 27, 2018 — Progressive web applications (PWAs) are more of a methodology that involves a combination of technologies to make powerful web applications. In this article, Ankita Masand will look at the pain points of users who are browsing old non-PWA websites and the promise of PWAs to make the web great. You’ll learn most of the important technologies that make for cool PWAs, like service workers, web push notifications and IndexedDB. Read more…

September 20, 2018 — A Progressive Web App or PWA is a web application that has a set of capabilities which provide an app-like experience to users. PWAs need to meet a set of essential requirements. PWAs are similar to native apps but are deployed and accessible from web servers via URLs, so you don’t need to go through app stores. Throughout this tutorial, Ahmed Bouchefra will be using Angular 6 to build a Progressive Web Application, step by step, implementing the core tenets of PWAs using Angular CLI v6. Read more…