Progressive Web Applications overview

Progressive Web Applications (PWA) are applications that use common web technologies such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. These applications are platform-independent and can be used across different devices such as desktops, tablets, and mobiles.

The following video (2:10) provides an overview of Progressive Web Application.

 https://youtu.be/7DnZnfo6uZ8

Features of Progressive Web Applications

Using PWA provides some of these features:

• Customization—high level of customizability means you can add forms, fields, and views that are specific to your business use cases.
• Responsive UI—capable of displaying user interfaces on devices with varying screen size, resolution, and OS.
• Functionality and security—consistent across all clients. 
• Data-driven localization—localized strings are extracted and used when the application is running.
• Progressive—Works on all supported browsers. .
• Installable—In the case of mobile devices, allows you to place useful applications on your home screen without the need of an application store.
• App-like—Uses an app shell that provides an app-like navigation and interactions on mobile clients.
• Linkable—Shareable by using a link. It does not require complex installations.

Benefits of Progressive Web Applications

PWAs provide the following benefits:

• Faster application load time.
  PWA is designed along the lines of a Single Page Application (SPA), so all static content is loaded once in a browser, and you can navigate seamlessly without the whole browser page being refreshed.
• Flexibility for developing a dynamic user interface.
• Ease of customizing the application.
• Support for Section 508 compliance similar to that of  and .
• Support for localization. 
  You can localize all labels in a generic fashion without the need to create per-locale views. You can also retrieve locale-based data.
• Accessible with user credentials by the standard login functionality similar to that of  including RSSO integration.