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Discussion on: What the heck is a "Progressive Web App"? Seriously.

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Aaron Gustafson

First off: I work for Microsoft on web standards & accessibility stuff and am focused a great deal on PWAS and interop currently.

I agree, there’s a lot of misinformation about this stuff. I’ve been writing and speaking quite a bit about it. Here are a few links to those materials:

Progressive Web Apps and the Windows Ecosystem
Video: channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/201...
Post: aaron-gustafson.com/notebook/progr...

Your Site—Any Site—Should Be a PWA
aaron-gustafson.com/notebook/your-...

Yes, That Web Project Should Be a PWA
alistapart.com/article/yes-that-we...

Quite a few others have been doing great work on helping define what PWAs are. In no particular order, I’d recommend:

Betting on the Web
joreteg.com/blog/betting-on-the-web

A Progressive Roadmap for your Progressive Web App
cloudfour.com/thinks/a-progressive...

How to turn your website into a PWA
mxb.at/blog/how-to-turn-your-websi...

Progressing the Web
adactio.com/journal/12461