It seems this can be misunderstood. I’m not disputing the advantages of web apps over native apps. I’m wondering what the benefits of PWAs over plain web apps are, and why I’m supposed to make a big deal of them
Stefan Tilkov @stilkov
22 Oct 2020
As a big fan of the web, I still fail to get what significant advantage PWAs are supposed to have. Still seems like a completely unnecessary marketing effort to me. Am I missing something?
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Are they a big deal? I thought they allow parts of your web app to be occasionally connected even if no window is open. They’d also allow you to have multiple tabs of the same app open and let them share state.
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Replying to @fquednau
Interesting, how is the latter restricted to PWAs?

Oct 22, 2020 · 9:11 PM UTC

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Replying to @stilkov
An opportunity to learn :) - I looked and fair enough, there are other ways to do this - so we’re left with occasional connectedness and the star in the documentation, intercepting network eg for caching. Then you’ll say, but caching is a solved problem in web, to which I say, ok
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