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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I don’t really get the whole “I want to be more like a native app” thing. Not being like a native app feels like a good thing to me

Oct 22, 2020 · 9:38 PM UTC

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I doubt such statements make any sense without context. Even a plain old news site could benefit from being a pwa when it can be 'bookmarked' to the home screen and still allows to navigate to prefetched content even with flaky internet in our beloved German S-Bahn...
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No, not at all. JS is perfectly fine, but should be optional for the app’s core features if possible