Progressive Web App

Table of Contents

• Overview
• When to Use
• Quick Start
• Reference Guides
• Best Practices

Overview

Build progressive web applications with offline support, installability, service workers, and web app manifests to deliver app-like experiences in the browser.

When to Use

• App-like web experiences
• Offline functionality needed
• Mobile installation required
• Push notifications
• Fast loading experiences

Quick Start

Minimal working example:

// public/manifest.json
{
  "name": "My Awesome App",
  "short_name": "AwesomeApp",
  "description": "A progressive web application",
  "start_url": "/",
  "scope": "/",
  "display": "standalone",
  "orientation": "portrait-primary",
  "background_color": "#ffffff",
  "theme_color": "#007bff",
  "icons": [
    {
      "src": "/images/icon-192.png",
      "sizes": "192x192",
      "type": "image/png",
      "purpose": "any"
    },
    {
      "src": "/images/icon-512.png",
      "sizes": "512x512",
      "type": "image/png",
      "purpose": "any"
    },
    {
// ... (see reference guides for full implementation)

Reference Guides

Detailed implementations in the references/ directory:

| Guide | Contents | |---|---| | Web App Manifest | Web App Manifest | | Service Worker Implementation | Service Worker Implementation | | Install Prompt and App Installation | Install Prompt and App Installation | | Offline Support with IndexedDB | Offline Support with IndexedDB | | Push Notifications | Push Notifications |

Best Practices

✅ DO

• Follow established patterns and conventions
• Write clean, maintainable code
• Add appropriate documentation
• Test thoroughly before deploying

❌ DON'T

• Skip testing or validation
• Ignore error handling
• Hard-code configuration values