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Hi guys! I don't want to build native apps. So I built Pep. It turns your website into a Progressive Web App (PWA) with one line of code. It's kind of like Workbox ( https://developers.google.com/web/tools/workbox ), but with adaptive pre-fetching, CDN, and responsive asset batteries included. I'd love your input; feedback is how good products become great.
"Your static JavaScript, CSS, and images are automatically minified, optimized, and hosted globally on Google's Cloud" That's a non-starter for me. Google screwed me hard years ago when I was using their Adwords. I can't forgive or forget that.
I've deployed a full PWA (by lighthouse standard) and its hard to understand how can you comply with one line of code. Ex how do you define the installable icon for the Add to home screen icon ? Or how do you choose what gets in the cache for offline access ? PS : this is your score https://www.webpagetest.org/result/200227_PT_b799b0e13e0417b...
Hi guys! I don't want to build native apps. So I built Pep. It turns your website into a Progressive Web App (PWA) with one line of code. It's kind of like Workbox ( https://developers.google.com/web/tools/workbox ), but with adaptive pre-fetching, CDN, and responsive asset batteries included. I'd love your input; feedback is how good products become great.
Can someone explain what a PWA is? I tried reading the official Mozilla docs and wikipedia. I don't understand - how do these apps work like "native" apps if they are not using native UI kits and running inside a browser? That's not really "native". Native app to me is like macOS Mail or Sublime Text. I don't consider any of the electron apps (Slack, VSCode) as "native". There is a real beauty of using native apps. I…
What if I told you that macOS Mail and Sublime Text was made with "web" techbology? You can make slow apps with bad UI in any language or framework, JavaScript just makes the barrier to entry lower, so you will get more shitty apps. Progressive web app (PWA) just means that it use feature detection to enhance itself. The most notably features are "add2desktop" and "service workers". "add2desktop" lets you add the app…
Do you have a source for this? Mail content may very well be rendered in a web view (which is unsurprising given rich text and HTML are underpinnings of email), but I’d be surprised if the UI and widgets aren’t native.
“The results speak for themselves: Pinterest..., Twitter..., FlipKart..., AliExpress..., Forbes..., Lancôme...” Did any of them use Pep? Doesn’t look like it. I’d say this is deceptive marketing. Not sure if it’s trademark violation.
"Your static JavaScript, CSS, and images are automatically minified, optimized, and hosted globally on Google's Cloud" That's a non-starter for me. Google screwed me hard years ago when I was using their Adwords. I can't forgive or forget that.
Pep's not married to Google's CDN. Which other CDN(s) do you, or would you prefer to, use over Google's?
Thank you for weighing in.
“The results speak for themselves: Pinterest..., Twitter..., FlipKart..., AliExpress..., Forbes..., Lancôme...” Did any of them use Pep? Doesn’t look like it. I’d say this is deceptive marketing. Not sure if it’s trademark violation.
It specifically talks about benefits of PWAs, not Pep. All of those sites built PWAs.
As for whether it’s actually deceptive...
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What if I told you that macOS Mail and Sublime Text was made with "web" techbology? You can make slow apps with bad UI in any language or framework, JavaScript just makes the barrier to entry lower, so you will get more shitty apps. Progressive web app (PWA) just means that it use feature detection to enhance itself. The most notably features are "add2desktop" and "service workers". "add2desktop" lets you add the app…
> macOS Mail... made with web technology Do you have a source for this? Mail content may very well be rendered in a web view (which is unsurprising given rich text and HTML are underpinnings of email), but I’d be surprised if the UI and widgets aren’t native.
"Your static JavaScript, CSS, and images are automatically minified, optimized, and hosted globally on Google's Cloud" That's a non-starter for me. Google screwed me hard years ago when I was using their Adwords. I can't forgive or forget that.
If it’s a static bundle, I think cloud deployment should be trivial...at worst they can add a feature to download a zip and sync to s3. I wouldn’t rule out this tool based on this fact alone.
If Google precludes certain users, we'll switch to something that doesn't.