Progressive Web Apps

• Benefits/problems it solves

  • Usable offline/slow connection
  • Responsive
  • Installed w/o app store
  • Efficient
  • Don't have to code it twice(Mobile, Web, Desktop)

• Ease of setup

  • There aren't any scaffold/generation commands
  • Requires basic knowledge of language concepts
  • You have to understand service workers
  • Requires non-app specific code to start up

• Drawbacks

  • Manual setup
  • Additional complexity
    • More complex way of doing what HTML can do
  • Not supported by all browsers
  • Not a native application

• Learning Curve --Understanding service workers --Understanding event-driven architecture/asynchronous environment

• Choosing between PWA and not

  • Pointless if you're fully dependent on back-end
  • Where does your traffic come from?
    • Primary user base
    • Phone --> Native app
    • Desktop ---> Web app