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Nonetheless, for consumers at least, some of that will change. You won't be using these apps on a daily basis, nor do they require the particularly deep functionality of a native email client or messaging app. For many services, PWAs make sense, such as a flower delivery service, bus tickets, or a local restaurant. PWAs can bring a pleasant experience (see Trello), but they likely won't match the look and feel of an authentic "native" app. That's not necessarily great news, as it means companies may opt for a cheaper PWA rather than sophisticated native platform as web standards and technology improves.įor consumers, it is a bit mixed. PWAs bring a democratization of sorts to the app world for big players and small who now get a shot in an App Store while delivering a native-like app experience.įor developers, making a PWA is significantly easier than coding a native one from scratch. While a good argument could be made that companies like Amazon, Yelp, or Spotify can "afford" such an expense, your local restaurant, car dealership, or flower shop cannot. Many large corporations with complex apps may have a "team" of developers pushing that cost into hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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A single professional developer could start at around $50,000 a year for a salary plus retention. The simplest explanation for PWA for a company is money.
PWAs affect all of them in separate ways, not all good. The question as to why we see a new push for PWA is complicated as there are three players involved: (1) The company or service (2) App developers (3) consumers. Moreover, due to the criteria noted above like support for HTTPS and the Store listing ("siloed apps") customers know that the app is safe.
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While the PWA-UWP app can be updated at any time thanks to the Windows Store a lot of the content is dynamic meaning companies can make changes on the backend first cutting down time of delivery to customers. Using web Service Workers and caching the "app" can receive live updates and even work offline. Microsoft's UWP fills in the gaps of PWA with support for the notifications in the Action Center, Live Tiles, Cortana integration, Share targets and more. Now, take that site, pack it into a Microsoft APPX file (UWP) and list it in the Store and you have a new Twitter app that supports notifications and a native-like experience. If you navigate to on your phone or even desktop web browser (doesn't matter which browser) you can experience what a PWA is like when it is just a website. One of the most prominent examples of a modern PWA is Twitter. Example of PWA (and how UWP makes it better) Hybrid apps that mix and match feature sets are a popular topic these days and we'll be seeing more of it going forward. If that sounds familiar, it is because Microsoft Desktop Bridge (Project Centennial) is also a hybrid system of classic Win32 programming and modern UWP APIs. PWAs, in that sense, are thought of as hybrid web apps.
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Discoverable - Are identifiable as "applications" thanks to W3C manifests and service worker registration scope allowing search engines to find them.Safe - Served via HTTPS to prevent snooping and ensure content hasn't been tampered with.
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Much of that is thanks to Cache and Push APIs that make PWA more satisfying to use. PWAs, mainly, fix all of that with apps that feel native but rely more heavily on the web.