Re:Turn your website into a Progressive Web App
by untog on Wednesday July 12, 2017 @12:03PM
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I agree to an extent, but it's important to remember that Progressive Web Apps are really just a branding exercise for a bunch of different technologies, and you don't have to implement them all.
A news site might see huge value in implementing push notifications, whereas a shopping site might not. Messaging sites may see huge value in background sync, but it will be of little value to others. So on, and so forth.
My main complaint is that the biggest win for PWAs is simple caching - you can explicitly choose which resources to add to a cache instead of relying on the normal browser cache. This becomes necessary on mobile because the browser cache is very small and is emptied far too often - I'd rather them solve that problem before forcing everyone to make a service worker just to ensure their CSS and JS is cached successfully.
A news site might see huge value in implementing push notifications, whereas a shopping site might not. Messaging sites may see huge value in background sync, but it will be of little value to others. So on, and so forth.
My main complaint is that the biggest win for PWAs is simple caching - you can explicitly choose which resources to add to a cache instead of relying on the normal browser cache. This becomes necessary on mobile because the browser cache is very small and is emptied far too often - I'd rather them solve that problem before forcing everyone to make a service worker just to ensure their CSS and JS is cached successfully.