progressive-web-app

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