In today’s digital landscape, delivering seamless user experiences across all devices is essential. Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) are the key to achieving this, offering fast, reliable, and engaging experiences. PWABuilder is a powerful tool that simplifies the process of converting your web app into a fully-functional PWA. Whether you’re looking to enhance performance, enable offline capabilities, or improve user engagement, PWABuilder provides an easy-to-use platform for boosting your web app’s potential. Let’s explore how this tool can take your app to the next level. remember you do not need to make a fully PWA web app to utilize the great features it has! it can enhance a normal website to a (mobile/cross-platform) application!
PWABuilder Studio
Looking to make a PWA project or boost your non PWA web application and a easy way to add manifest and service workers? done with the mundane task!
PWABuilder Studio makes it easy and straightforward to deploy a new or existing web project as a PWA but not limited to PWA.
PWAStudioand PWA’s have enough functionality for your web app other than “making it “PWA”, with the added functionality of the PWA’s services and workers you can also cache API calls to make your app faster and functional even without internet access 🙂
Unlock PWA Features with PWABuilder Tool
PWABuilder helps you create and configure a web app manifest, which defines how your app appears when installed on a device. It includes icons (auto icon resizer), theme colors, and display settings for mobile phones
lets make a demo with VuseJS (check my github for source code)
After installing run the npm install script, and dont forget to add GIT!
after generating a WebManifest
Click on web manifest to configure your web app
Generate a service worker, you can chose between basic or advanced (i chose advanced so i can cache my api calls, etc)
If you dont want a PWA you can stop here or make it a fully PWA app (you know whats best for the project at hand)
If you chose for a fully PWA app you can distribute it to the iOS app store and/or google play store and also the microsoft store (or with the serviceworker u can set a pop up to install the web app wen users go to your website)
Lets run it!
If you encounter a vite bug chances are you need to install it globally
npm -g install vite@latest
npm install
running it will build a dist folder (here is where our app resides to be published)
lets test it.
run following command
npm run preview
If all go well, you will be greeted by this site, now try to turn off the internet and reload the page, you will see its still working!
go the my GitHub for the source code
