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Progressive web apps

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Progressive web apps

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- [Narrator] If you've been following the web trends lately, you've likely heard the buzz around Progressive Web Apps, or PWAs. A Progressive Web App, in a nutshell, uses modern web capabilities to deliver an app-like user experience. You see, native apps work offline. You install them from the app store. They live on your home screen. You can press on the icon, load the experience, and that's great, but mobile websites, by comparison, historically haven't had any of those things. And that's where Progressive Web Apps come in. The goal is that Progressive Web Apps use new web APIs and new design concepts to create experiences that feel like native applications, but yet, they're simply living inside the web browser. A Progressive Web App is many things, but the core of a Progressive Web App is that it's well, progressive, responsive, independent, app-like, fresh, safe, discoverable, re-engagable, installable, and linkable. So progressive means it's going to work for everyone regardless…

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