What is Progressive website application?
The progressive web app (PWA) is a combination of the best of the app and the best of the website. It is an app which is progressive, responsive, connectivity-independent, secure, discoverable, installable, linkable to your official website. It is comfortable in using as it does not require any installation and can run on slow networks as well. As apps are becoming powerful these days, PWA is even stronger and easier. They are gaining publicity day-by-day as they work efficiently with both devices and desktop (mobiles and browser).
A PWA doesn’t need internet connectivity nor it refreshes the entire page if a new content is loading. Any user can reuse it by adding a shortcut on the homepage which means that it can be installed too.
For any newbie who wants to develop a progressive web application, here are a few tools and resources that can be an immense help.
1. PWARocks: You firstly have to understand what extent it is capable of anything. PWA.rocks can be referred for examples of various categories like games, shopping, business, social and action. This link can help you in imagining what will you PWA look like.
2. Knockout: It is a free and open source tool which will help you with Model-View-Model or MVVM bindings. With this, coding of JavaScript UIs is simplified which works with almost all the major browsers. The knockout library can be easily linked to the existing websites.
3. PWA Builder: PWA can be used offline as well, but for that PWA builder needs to assemble your information rapidly. Embed your site’s URL and then, fill in all the information required for a name, desired icon and site description. Properties like color, screen orientation, language and background can be modified with its help.
4. AngularJs: Students who want to learn web development, have to learn the JavaScript as it is the basic language in this field. A lot of resources are available for tutorials and guides which can help you learn the language. If you find it difficult, then use React- s JavaScript library tailored to UI development.
5. Google Developers: A PWA is not an easy task which can be developed by non-professional so easily. If you are clueless about developing content management systems being experienced with content management; you can get the help by Google Developers- a library of resources which help you learn how to code.
6. Webpack: Non-code assets like images and fonts can be built by this JavaScript app resource. It makes things easier to manage dependencies.
7. GitHub: it covers a wide range of programming-related topics including PWA and JavaScript service workers. In fact, these two are included in this platform. It surely helps in better understanding and further development.
Basically, PWAs are the future of web experience but not usually used by many brands. One who understands to use the above tools can surely develop progressive website applications with the latest technology.
