Turn your website into a Progressive Web App

Re:Turn your website into a Progressive Web App by adrianN on Wednesday July 12, 2017 @10:42AM (#14752893)

Or you could just serve a small website without scripts or huge images that doesn't need to be progressive because it could be viewed just as well on some 100Mhz Pentium I class computer over a 56k connection.

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Re:Turn your website into a Progressive Web App by gramstrong on Wednesday July 12, 2017 @11:21AM (#14753300)

What is the point of this comment? If you want to create a tiny static web page for which the benefits of a service worker are nominal, then do it and stop worrying about it. That's not the purpose of service workers anyways.

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Re:Turn your website into a Progressive Web App by adrianN on Wednesday July 12, 2017 @01:03PM (#14754258)

The linked article claims that a PWA is appropriate for a blog or a marketing site, or any content basically. I strongly disagree.

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Re:Turn your website into a Progressive Web App by hyperdunc on Wednesday July 12, 2017 @12:28PM (#14753908)

The comment is intimating that many websites are over-engineered.

Consider it a suggestion to developers who are tempted to implement cool new tech on a site just to tickle their own itch.

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Re:Turn your website into a Progressive Web App by Softcadbury on Wednesday July 12, 2017 @10:52AM (#14752982)

Well, reducing the loading time of your app is a part of the process to make a progressive app...

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Re:Turn your website into a Progressive Web App by achairapart on Wednesday July 12, 2017 @05:37PM (#14756928)

Wait, you need at least a Pentium III, the one that was "designed for the Internet"[0].

> The Pentium III processor's Internet Streaming SIMD Extensions Instruction Set has been a hit with software developers resulting in numerous optimized Web sites and software applications available today.

[0]: https://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/releases/1999/dp0517...

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Re:Turn your website into a Progressive Web App by untog on Wednesday July 12, 2017 @12:09PM (#14753708)

And how many of your users are using a 100Mhz Pentium I class computer over a 56k connection? Almost every smartphone is better than that.

And you're ignoring huge benefits like offline availability, push notifications, storage...

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Re:Turn your website into a Progressive Web App by adrianN on Wednesday July 12, 2017 @01:10PM (#14754319)

Maybe my users want to do more things with their computer than just display a website. And maybe they don't want my website to prevent their processor from entering a sleep state because it does unnecessary background work. Maybe my users pay for their data, or maybe they have a poor connection.

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Re:Turn your website into a Progressive Web App by untog on Wednesday July 12, 2017 @01:16PM (#14754375)

> And maybe they don't want my website to prevent their processor from entering a sleep state because it does unnecessary background work.

Good news is that a service worker can't do that. It gets automatically shut down after a short period of time. It will be woken up again in response to push notifications, which you must request permission for, or in response to a new user event.

> Maybe my users pay for their data, or maybe they have a poor connection.

Which is why providing greater offline capability is a good thing, not a bad thing.

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