As the web evolves, developers are compelled to push the boundaries of what’s possible; we are driven to build apps that provide native-like experiences, all while retaining the benefits of what the web provides. The good news is that over the past few years, we’ve seen a huge improvement in both the quality and capabilities of the web. Technologies like web push notifications, web app manifests, and service workers provide the foundation for building web apps that are far more reliable and performant than ever before. Web apps that are built with these technologies and accompanying patterns are known as Progressive Web Apps (PWAs). They represent a new class of web apps to provide “radically better web experiences.”
The PWAs are Coming
The term, “progressive web app” was first used by Alex Russell in a blog post entitled, Progressive Web Apps: Escaping Tabs Without Losing Our Soul. As the story goes, he and Frances Berriman came up with this term to describe a “new class of… (Continue reading at telerik.com)