Microsoft and Google collaborate to make PWAs better
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#2Microsoft is now using Medium as their official blogging service?
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#3Microsoft is now using Medium as their official blogging service?
Author here. Some teams use it, including ours (PWABuilder).
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#5As the author seems to be here, the links in the "Add features to my PWA" section on pwabuilder website, don't seem to work for me.
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#6Earlier quoted context omitted.
Author here. Some teams use it, including ours (PWABuilder).
Off-topic, but... why? Is it lower friction to start up your team's blog on Medium versus the unified blog platform larger Microsoft teams tend to use?
PWABuilder is an open source project and builds cross platform web apps. We feel Medium is a better fit than the more corporate structured blogs. So far we've been pretty happy with Medium.
That said, we have been mulling building our own blogging platform using our own tools and web components for the sake of dogfooding.
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#8The main problem I see in PWAs these days is that they cannot permanently store data on the device. As soon as the user deletes their "browser data", all the data of the PWAs on the device is lost too.
If PWAs would get their own permanent storage like other apps, it would be a huge step forward.
Re: Microsoft and Google collaborate to make PWAs better
#9As the author seems to be here, the links in the "Add features to my PWA" section on pwabuilder website, don't seem to work for me.
Thanks for the heads up. We just changed the URLs to that yesterday. Fixing! In the meantime, you can access those components here[0].
Re: Microsoft and Google collaborate to make PWAs better
#10The main problem I see in PWAs these days is that they cannot permanently store data on the device. As soon as the user deletes their "browser data", all the data of the PWAs on the device is lost too. If PWAs would get their own permanent storage like other apps, it would be a huge step forward.
Certainly it's true PWAs are subject to the user's desires about browser data. I think that's a good thing for users.
PWAs usually store client-side data as a kind of cache: cookies, local storage, service worker cache. Caches are not meant to be permanent.
There may be room for improvement here, however. One might imagine that clearing browser data shouldn't clear data for installed PWAs. That's an argument worth further evaluation.