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What is the web app manifest? - JavaScript Tutorial

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What is the web app manifest?

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- [Instructor] In general, a manifest is a list of contents. Historically, manifests have been used for millennia in the shipping industry, where a manifest would describe the contents being carried from one port to another. Once the goods were delivered, the receiving port would verify the contents of the ship according to the manifest. Today, manifests are still used for all kinds of shipping applications, including trucking and rail. A web app manifest is no different. It provides information about a web app to the browser. Whenever developers provide data about data, it's called metadata. The web app manifest allows us to specify properties that apply to our web app. These include things like the name of the app, the icons, the color scheme, the start URL and more. The manifest is a simple JavaScript Object Notation, or JSON file. For more information about JSON, head over to json.org. And you can head over to Mozilla's Web Docs for the complete web app manifest spec.

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