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Progressive Web Apps: Apple App Store, Google Play Store, It Was Nice Knowing You
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Is the end coming for the Apple App Store and Google Play Store? The title is obviously an exaggeration, but in all seriousness, the time has come for a new wave of #mobile technology to come to the fore. In 2018, Twitter announced that it has started offering its mobile PWA as its main site. PWA? What’s that?Progressive Web Apps (PWA) is the future of mobile apps and the web, pushed by heavyweights in the industry especially Google. With features such as adding to home screen, offline support, push notifications and more, a PWA offers a user experience approaching that of a native mobile app.Here’s how a PWA works. Imagine you have a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) app that is also PWA compliant. You just need to visit the app using a normal URL in your mobile browser. If you have (...)

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Creating a Simple Text Editor Progressive Web App with #react
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For Your Progressive Web App:How to Create a Simple Text Editor with ReactIn 2019 Progressive Web Apps are going to be much hyped and there’s no better time to start exploring the benefits. In this tutorial i’ll take you step by step through creating a simple Text Editor PWA using React so you can code your own!Originally published at www.jamiemaison.com.In 2019 Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) are going to be much hyped and there’s no better time to start exploring the benefits. In this tutorial i’ll take you step by step through creating a simple Text Editor PWA using React so you can code your own!When PWAs were first mentioned in 2015 Google’s Alex Russell introduced them as web applications that have the following attributes:Responsive: to fit any form factorConnectivity independent: (...)

#web-development #create-text-editor #react-text-editor #progressive-web-app

Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) FTW — Pt. 2
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Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) FTW — Pt. 2IntroductionIn part 1 of this series we looked at what Progressive Web Apps are and discussed how they can improve user experiences in mobile web. These articles are based on the talk I gave at the Reversim Summit. If you prefer to watch the video you can see it here:▻https://medium.com/media/2c31b3cbe49e18762f4820b486c62234/hrefLet’s continue where we left off last time and dive into Web Workers. Web Workers are the core technologies that enable PWAs.Web WorkersIf you’ve worked a bit with #javascript before you may have noticed that it is single threaded. This is evident if you do any expensive computations on the client side. In these cases the page becomes unresponsive until the script running the computations is finished. A web worker comes to solve (...)

#web-development #coding #pwa #progressive-web-app

#magento 2.3 — Everything You Need To Know
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Magento 2.3 — Everything You Need To KnowDuring the Imagine 2018 conference back in April, Magento announced the release of Magento 2.3 by the end of 2018.After much of a wait, Magento has released the Magento 2.3 on November 28, 2018.It has been almost a year since the last major release of Magento 2.2 but Magento 2.3 has brought a ton of new core features with a lot of smaller optimizations.11 New Features Magento 2.3 IntroducedMagento 2.3 introduces tons of new core features such as –Progressive Web App (PWA) StudioGraphQL SupportDeclarative DB SchemaAsynchronous and Bulk Web APIElasticsearchPHP 7.2 SupportMulti-Source Inventory (MSI)WYSIWYG UpgradePage BuilderCache-ManagementGoogle reCAPTCHA and Two Factor AuthenticationLet’s have a closer look at them.Progressive Web Applications (PWA) (...)

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PWAs FTW — Pt. 1
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Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) FTW — Pt. 1Progressive Web AppsIntroductionLast month I had the pleasure of talking about Progressive Web Apps at the amazing Reversim Summit. This series will summarise the contents of that talk. If you prefer to watch the video you can see it here:▻https://medium.com/media/9c8806e602e4f245cca58eb9b86b1298/hrefWhyProgressive Web Apps are here to help us bridge UX between mobile websites and apps. But before we jump into how let’s understand why.Last year Google published that there are nearly 3x more monthly unique visitors to mobile websites versus native applications. If this is the case then why do we bother developing mobile applications at all? The answer is user engagement. User engagement on native apps is nearly 10x larger than on mobile websites. That’s (...)

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#progressive Web Apps vs Native Apps — When and Which to Choose
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Progressive Web Apps vs Native Apps — When and Which to ChooseProgressive Web Apps have proven very useful and we have seen them being implemented in lots of projects. However, they are not here to take the place of native apps but to fix some problems such as cross-platform compatibility.Progressive Web ApplicationsProgressive Web Applications are web applications that can act as regular #mobile applications. Therefore you can have access to some device APIs and functionalities that only native mobile applications are expected to be able to access and also have the operating system’s native interface.PWA is a technology developed by Google and was outsourced by the company for others to use and enjoy its awesome benefits.How they workPWAs are reliant on different technologies such as (...)

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Build an E-Commerce Progressive Web App with GatsbyJS
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Photo by Yiran Ding on UnsplashI tried buying a t-shirt on my phone the other day.First, I get redirected to a ▻http://m.thatsite.com URL.Mobile site loads…Content finally appears, along with a fullscreen pop-up:Download our mobile app for a better shopping experience!I tap the link. App store loads…Bad reviews, blurred screenshots, 50 MB. SighI close both app store and browser.This familiar, sketchy shopping experience could have been avoided.How? With progressive web app e-commerce.Progressive Web Applications (PWAs) have been on the rise these last years. Solid PWA examples are popping up everywhere, and for good reasons.They encourage an inclusive, global, adaptative approach to web development. They make sense both from a user AND a business POV, as we’ll see in this piece. Frameworks like (...)

#ecommerce #javascript #app-development #progressive-web-app #web-development

Building Budgeteer - Lessons and Experiences
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Building Budgeteer — Lessons and ExperiencesIn late 2017 I felt the need to build something but didn’t know what and had spent the last 2 months racking my brain to find an interesting project. With less than a semester left of college I eventually realized I needed a budget app. BOOM. There it was. I knew of course about Mint, and later learned of Clarity #money far into development, but I wanted something smaller and more focused without all the extra heft that Mint provides, or the advertising and recommendations that Clarity Money includes.Budgeteer was born (My sister came up with the name at dinner when I was home on vacation, I am not that creative). This is the story of how I built it, lessons learned, and experience gained. It’s not finished, and still requires a fair amount of (...)

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Creating a Progressive Web App with a Headless #cms — Part 2
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Hey, welcome back! In Part 1 of this series, I introduced you to the Progressive Web App (PWA). I covered what they are, how they function, and how a headless CMS can really add some awesome functionality. In Part 2, I’m going to dive into building a #pwa and adding some cool features. That means creating the base app, adding the magic, and testing.So, let’s get to the good stuff!RecapIn Part 1, I mentioned a few services that we’re going to talk about a lot in this series.Google PWA TutorialThis is the “base” app we started with for our demo. It’s a great tutorial and provides a nice foundation for a PWA.Kentico CloudThis is the cloud-based CMS we used to power our application. It’s a scalable, flexible CMS with tons of SDKs and sample projects to help you get going quickly.Creating the base (...)

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