Progressive Web Application
PWA stands for Progressive Web Application. Let's examine it by splitting it into two parts. The latter two words (“Web Application”) speak for themselves. PWAs are web applications. Here, web application simply means an app running as a website like, for example, Twitter.A Progressive Web App (PWA) is an app that uses modern Web capabilities to offer users a very similar (if not better) experience to a native app. Unlike traditional apps, progressive web apps are a hybrid between regular web pages and mobile applications.How does PWA work?
A PWA is a web application that can be “installed” on your system. It works offline when you don't have an internet connection, leveraging data cached during your last interactions with the app. ... If you launch the apps, they will run in Chrome rather than having their own icon.What does progressive Web App mean?
Progressive Web Apps are web apps that use emerging web browser APIs and features along with traditional progressive enhancement strategy to bring a native app-like user experience to cross-platform web applications. Progressive Web Apps are a useful design pattern, though they aren't a formalized standard.Why is PWA so fast?
Since you access PWA from a web browser, you don't have to submit your application in the Stores. Users do not download all the content of PWA before using it. Thus, they access its content much faster, directly via a URL. Since it requires no download, PWA uses only a very small portion of the phone's memory.
