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How to Create a Progressive Web Application With React

Codica on November 04, 2020

This article was originally published on Codica Blog. Steve Jobs came up with the first idea of progressive web applications back in 2007. He saw ...
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Derek Oware • Edited

New create-react-app doesn't come with service worker by default. You'll have to use a template

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Codica • Edited

Thank you for pointing this out, Derek! Thing is we wrote the article some time ago, so need to update this part.

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Codica

We have updated the article :)

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Max Programming

Really nice blog post! But recently with React 17, serviceWorker does not arrive. It is taken out

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Codica

Thanks! We have updated the article.

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Andrew Baisden

Progressive Web Apps are so useful javascript is such a versatile language i think some people tend to forget that.

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muzammilaalpha

Good post!! Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) offers a lot of benefits
PWAs are installable, making it easily accessible from the home screen just like any other application.
PWAs can be great for SEO.
Progressive web app development cost is low
Traditional app updates and maintenance are a thing in the past with PWAs.
Load times are faster with PWAs, as opposed to traditional websites.

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Mark Stanley (he/him)

Perfect - worked a treat. Many thanks for this

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Codica

Awesome! You're welcome!

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Zoo Codes

Very nice post!

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Codica

Thank you very much!

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Manoj Barman • Edited

iOS Safari PWA push notifications is not yet supported though.
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