{"id":1958,"date":"2019-03-07T06:11:36","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T06:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nvecta.com\/blog\/?p=1958"},"modified":"2023-12-19T13:05:46","modified_gmt":"2023-12-19T13:05:46","slug":"what-are-progressive-web-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nvecta.com\/blog\/what-are-progressive-web-apps\/","title":{"rendered":"What Are Progressive Web Apps? &#8211; Why is it Useful [A Complete Guide]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>What are progressive web apps<\/strong> and how it can\u00a0help our business? 2018 saw increasing support for the technologies behind\u00a0Progressive Web App\u00a0from major players like Google, Microsoft, and Apple. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As the adoption of PWAs become mainstream, it could also open up new growth opportunities for your business.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_81 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-transparent ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nvecta.com\/blog\/what-are-progressive-web-apps\/#What_are_Progressive_web_apps\" >What are Progressive web apps?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nvecta.com\/blog\/what-are-progressive-web-apps\/#How_Progressive_web_apps_are_made_possible\" >How Progressive web apps are made possible?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nvecta.com\/blog\/what-are-progressive-web-apps\/#Benefits_of_PWAs\" >Benefits of PWA\u2019s<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nvecta.com\/blog\/what-are-progressive-web-apps\/#How_PWAs_gives_opportunities_for_growth\" >How PWAs gives opportunities for growth?<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_are_Progressive_web_apps\"><\/span><strong>What are Progressive web apps?<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you are building for the web, there is no way you wouldn\u2019t have heard of the latest buzzword in the industry, which would have been added to your work vocabulary, PWA\u2019s. These have made the farfetched dream of running mobile like applications on the web browser.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn3.notifyvisitors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/add-to-home-screen-flipkart-pwa-1-768x2561.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-9515 size-full\" title=\"what are progressive web apps\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn3.notifyvisitors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/add-to-home-screen-flipkart-pwa-1-768x2561.jpg\" alt=\"add-to-home-screen-flipkart-pwa-1-768x256[1]\" width=\"768\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn3.notifyvisitors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/add-to-home-screen-flipkart-pwa-1-768x2561.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn3.notifyvisitors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/add-to-home-screen-flipkart-pwa-1-768x2561.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn3.notifyvisitors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/add-to-home-screen-flipkart-pwa-1-768x2561.jpg 370w, https:\/\/cdn3.notifyvisitors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/add-to-home-screen-flipkart-pwa-1-768x2561.jpg 270w, https:\/\/cdn3.notifyvisitors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/add-to-home-screen-flipkart-pwa-1-768x2561.jpg 740w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Progressive Web App is nothing but a term to denote a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elluminatiinc.com\/software-development-life-cycle\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">software development methodology<\/a> that creates apps which are a hybrid of regular web pages and mobile applications. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This aims to combine the features offered by modern browsers with the responsiveness of the mobile experience. \u00a0These web apps load like a normal website but also offers you the fast and responsive experience of a native desktop or mobile app.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is like a clone child of best of the web and the best of apps. It starts like a normal web page, but as the user explores its feature, a pop up appears asking them to add this web app on their home page. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Once a user selects that option a small icon of the web app appears on their home screen. If the web app is started from there, it hides the browser UI controls and functionality and runs like any other mobile application.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2010\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-bEE8k0dVSDc\/XJsQ6agLBKI\/AAAAAAAAI9w\/1u3Z2mwiLt0v0ZsCwJMcijf2QpYuwcblACK8BGAs\/s0\/2019-03-26.gif&quot;\" alt=\"pwa-add-to-home\" width=\"223\" height=\"396\" \/><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"How_Progressive_web_apps_are_made_possible\"><\/span><b>How Progressive web apps are made possible?<\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The credit for providing such a seamless experience should be given to the Service Worker. A service worker is a script that the browser runs in the background separate from the web page, which is the backbone of every PWA. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It enables reliable and intelligent caching, background content updating, push notifications and the most attractive offline functionality to prior visited sites. This means that, after the first visit to a website, the site and app will be reliably fast even on flaky networks.<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn3.notifyvisitors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/How-PWAs-are-made-possible1.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-9517 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn3.notifyvisitors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/How-PWAs-are-made-possible1.png\" alt=\"How-PWAs-are-made-possible[1]\" width=\"770\" height=\"289\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn3.notifyvisitors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/How-PWAs-are-made-possible1.png 1200w, https:\/\/cdn3.notifyvisitors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/How-PWAs-are-made-possible1.png 300w, https:\/\/cdn3.notifyvisitors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/How-PWAs-are-made-possible1.png 768w, https:\/\/cdn3.notifyvisitors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/How-PWAs-are-made-possible1.png 1024w, https:\/\/cdn3.notifyvisitors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/How-PWAs-are-made-possible1.png 370w, https:\/\/cdn3.notifyvisitors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/How-PWAs-are-made-possible1.png 270w, https:\/\/cdn3.notifyvisitors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/How-PWAs-are-made-possible1.png 740w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then comes in AMP (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nvecta.com\/blog\/accelerated-mobile-pages-explained\">Accelerated Mobile Pages<\/a>). It provides reliably fast web components for the first load. These components are fast to load and fewer data hungry. Websites that use the combination of AMP and Service Worker will provide reliable speed as the native apps.<\/p>\n<p>Once the page is loaded, the site setups the service worker and assets are cached intelligently. This will always keep the PWA up to date thereby freeing the users from the frequent updates to be done from the App Store.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn3.notifyvisitors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/amp-pwa-11.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-9518 size-full\" title=\"progessive-web-app-with-amp\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn3.notifyvisitors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/amp-pwa-11.jpg\" alt=\"amp-pwa-1[1]\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn3.notifyvisitors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/amp-pwa-11.jpg 800w, https:\/\/cdn3.notifyvisitors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/amp-pwa-11.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn3.notifyvisitors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/amp-pwa-11.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn3.notifyvisitors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/amp-pwa-11.jpg 370w, https:\/\/cdn3.notifyvisitors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/amp-pwa-11.jpg 270w, https:\/\/cdn3.notifyvisitors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/amp-pwa-11.jpg 740w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Benefits_of_PWAs\"><\/span><b>Benefits of PWA\u2019s<\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>These are the major enhancement that PWAs provide to a normal web app:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn3.notifyvisitors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/progressive-web-app-benefits1-740x3041.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-9519 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn3.notifyvisitors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/progressive-web-app-benefits1-740x3041.jpg\" alt=\"progressive-web-app-benefits1-740x304[1]\" width=\"740\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn3.notifyvisitors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/progressive-web-app-benefits1-740x3041.jpg 740w, https:\/\/cdn3.notifyvisitors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/progressive-web-app-benefits1-740x3041.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn3.notifyvisitors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/progressive-web-app-benefits1-740x3041.jpg 370w, https:\/\/cdn3.notifyvisitors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/progressive-web-app-benefits1-740x3041.jpg 270w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Can be connected offline or even when network connectivity is flaky<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Increase user engagement via push notifications functionality<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hides browser UI and takes up the whole screen as an app<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Auto syncing of new information even when the browser is closed<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Increase discoverability of the app. Directly go to the domain name and no need to install it from the app store.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"How_PWAs_gives_opportunities_for_growth\"><\/span><b>How PWAs gives opportunities for growth?<\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Save money: <\/b>If you chose to <a href=\"https:\/\/senlainc.com\/blog\/custom-software-development-costs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">make a native app<\/a> for your business, then you would have to make a different version for different platforms. Thus you would have to incur extra cost. Now if you are a startup strapped for money, then you wouldn\u2019t like that.\n<p>PWAs helps you solve this issue. They run on the browser and can be developed with the same technology stack. Whether its iOS or Android, PWA are browser-based and uses the same code base for both platforms.<\/p>\n<p>NotifyVisitors help existing website to easily adopt\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.notifyvisitors.com\/product\/pwa-progressive-web-app\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Progressive Web App<\/a> technology.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b><b>Faster Adaption of Newer Versions: <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When you want to release a newer version of your app, you can\u2019t do it immediately. You would have to wait for weeks before the app store gives you approval and it reaches the user.<\/span><\/b><\/b>\n<p>The high time cost and literal cost of releasing a new update to the app store means it is not feasible to release simple changes such as testing different copies.<\/p>\n<p>PWA can be updated easily like deploying a normal web app and can be released immediately without waiting for anybody\u2019s approval shortening the feedback loop.<\/p>\n<p><b>Shorter feedback loops are beneficial for growth because they allow for faster testing and learnings.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Easy Implementation: <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">PWAs are implemented with javascript and doesn\u2019t require creating a new app from scratch. A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aalpha.net\/services\/web-development-in-india\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">team of web developers<\/a> can easily start adding new functionality to an existing web app without adopting a new tech stack. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Incremental Changes: <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">PWAs are not all or nothing when it comes to deployment. A different feature can be added incrementally.<\/span><\/span>\n<p>An app can do an initial test, allowing it to check which features are working or not and which allows it to be added to the home screen.<\/p>\n<p>It can then add more advanced capability like offline functionality later on if it finds the initial test results to be worthy.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>[Update March 2019]: Google Support PWAs to publish PWAs app on Google PlayStore From Chrome 72. This is due to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.notifyvisitors.com\/product\/pwa-trusted-web-activity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trusted Web Activities<\/a> (TWA) which increase the application of PWAs.\u00a0 Learn More About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nvecta.com\/blog\/progressive-web-app-available-google-playstore\/\"><strong>PWA on Google PlayStore Update<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Conclusion: <\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Progressive Web app is good for your business.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Progressive Web App will kill some basic app as PWAs is easy to maintain and cost saving with lots of benefits compare to native apps. They have the potential to create a shift in the way the web works. Business can make use of this new technology to fuel growth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NotifyVisitors helps its clients increase growth by using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nvecta.com\/blog\/what-is-pwa\/\">PWA<\/a> to their advantage. If others can do it, you can too. Visit our website to get more information about our products.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<p><strong>Also Read:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nvecta.com\/blog\/progressive-web-app-explained\">Progressive Web App \u2013 The Future of Web App<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nvecta.com\/blog\/why-progressive-web-apps-are-safe-and-reliable\">10 Features of Progressive Web Apps Will Make Your Web App Smarter<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What are progressive web apps and how it can\u00a0help our business? 2018 saw increasing support for the technologies behind\u00a0Progressive Web App\u00a0from major players like Google, Microsoft, and Apple. As the adoption of PWAs become mainstream, it could also open up new growth opportunities for your business. What are Progressive web apps? 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