The number of mobile users has been ever so increasing as the years go by. The demand for a better web experience on mobile devices has increased. With the recent pandemic occurring on-demand services such as virtual tutors and coaches, food delivery, house cleaning, maintenance service, and etc skyrocketing. This caused an influx of the need to get a good experience on their mobile devices when getting these things done
But conventional websites aren’t able to meet the innumerable amount of demands due to reasons such as slow connection, unfriendly user interface, and etc. Thus the web apps come into play for the idea of giving a better user experience in any kind of device or browser the consumer uses.
As technology progresses, a variety of options towards upgrading the user experience on the web for different devices became available. This is where progressive web apps come into play, as a variety of native app-like features is able to be utilized compared to the regular web apps.
Web App is basically made to have its content fit in all types of screens regardless of the device it is rendered on. It is created with the web languages such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, along with back-end programming languages such as Ruby, PHP, Python Java, . Net, etc. A web app is able to use the device feature on the web browser they operate on. But some features are not available on certain browsers such as Firefox and so on.
A website that phased towards becoming an application. Progressive Web App is in essence the upgraded version of a regular web app. It comes with additional functionality compared to its predecessors to provide a better experience in both desktop and mobile due to the fact they are built and enhanced with modern API.
As a regular web app, the progressive web app is able to operate on a mobile platform with the majority of the device features.
Progressive Web App does not demand a large amount of space as it is very small. Once installed the user is able to access it through the app icon on the home screen like the native apps. In addition, PWA can be downloaded through a link as such making it convenient to install the app.
The push notification can be utilized by the progressive web app making it able to increase user engagement when using the app. This allows businesses to notify their promotions, services, and deals to keep them engaged.
The cost of developing a progressive web app is much lower compared to other alike choices out there. Unlike native apps that rely on an app store, the progressive app store doesn’t. In addition, there are many progressive web app open source frameworks such as Webpack, Ionic, PWAbuilder and etc to build a progressive web app that decreases the costs of the developing process.
With caching progressive web application is able to store a set amount of data to enable users to have access to what is stored to be viewed without an internet connection. This ultimately enables an alternative way for the user to use the app.
When building a progressive web application the implementation for a more secure PWA is able to be done. In addition, these apps are used through HTTPS which ensures encrypted connection.