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What's next for PWAs?

Stefan Dorresteijn on July 13, 2019

Progressive Web Applications have become all the rage; with companies like Instagram, Twitter, Forbes and Alibaba investing real effort into making...
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Vinuth M. Madinur

Safari is the new IE6.

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zardoz01

You haven't mentioned the Microsoft Store support for PWAs and Microsoft's use of Chromium for it's next gen Edge Browser. Focusing on Apple's lack of support is irrelevant. PWAs have their own momentum and a multitude of benefits. They're unstoppable!

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Brett Sutton

Still missing the ability to get a user's list of contacts.

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Francesco Leardini

On whatwebcando.today you can find a whole list of Web APIs showing what it is currently available via browser and what's not compared to native apps.
Mentioned in my intro article about PWAs: dev.to/paco_ita/a-gentle-introduct...

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Seanmclem • Edited

Google was proposing new research into a web Api for file-system access. seems kind of quiet for now,but if browser vendors can reach a consensus it will be great for PWAs

Link: developers.google.com/web/updates/...

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WeShareApps

You should have a look at our PWA platform. Have your own dashboard of PWA and get recommendations of PWAs you never knew excited. weshareapps.com

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Šime Vidas

I believe they'll add push notifications by the end of this year

Have they hinted at that in any way, or is this wishful thinking? 😅

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Stefan Dorresteijn

The most wishful of thinking