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Supercharge Your Website Using PWA: Installable Website

Tapajyoti Bose on April 18, 2021

What is a PWA? Progressive Web Apps (PWA) are web applications that have been designed so they are capable (utilize native features), re...
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Dor Shinar

PWA is really sweet, and for a long I was sure it was going to be the future, but now I begin to doubt it.
On my phone I have exactly one app that is a PWA (dev.to), and most people I know have zero PWAs, even though they have close to 100 regular apps.
I think people are used to installing apps from stores (the App Store or the Play Store), and are very hesitant to "install" a web site (which, admittedly sound a bit suspicious).

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VIMAL KUMAR

PWA can be published at Play Store
medium.com/@firt/google-play-store...

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Tapajyoti Bose

I wasn't aware of this. Thanks for sharing

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Tapajyoti Bose

I am not sure if pwa is the future, but its definitely a fun technology to toy around with. I think what you said definitely has a lot of weight

I think people are used to installing apps from stores (the App Store or the Play Store), and are very hesitant to "install" a web site

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Rithik Samanthula

Thanks Man, Can't wait to try it out and make my portfolio a PWA!

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Tapajyoti Bose

Welcome :)

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Anand Moorthy

I built my entire app as PWA, it's so awesome.
checkout deepfeed.net

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Mohammad Fazel

What a great site!

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Anand Moorthy

Thanks @mdhesari

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Rizwan Aaqil

Nice tutorial!

Is it possible to convert a pwa app into installable apk/ipa file, which we can submit to app stores too?

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Tapajyoti Bose

The blog shared in the comments by @vimal goes into the details of how to publish your apps in the play store