{"id":111,"date":"2019-02-25T13:30:41","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T13:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wavemaker.co.uk\/blog\/?p=111"},"modified":"2019-02-25T13:30:41","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T13:30:41","slug":"how-to-install-a-pwa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wavemaker.co.uk\/blog\/how-to-install-a-pwa\/","title":{"rendered":"How to install a PWA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Wavemaker is a PWA (Progressive Web App), which at it’s most basic level is a website that you can install locally and run without an internet connection. If you visit https:\/\/wavemaker.cards with a browser that allows you to take advantage of this (Google Chrome at time of writing is the first) You get the install button appearing<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At time of writing Windows\/Linux\/ Android do this by default (as should iOS) – on a mac you may need to enable the browser settings for Chrome<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If it the button doesn’t appear check the 3 dot menu<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Why use PWA’s<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Easy. Wavemaker is designed to be an online tool – it can run offline very easily, but about 95% of what you download as part of the software is basically the web browser (chromium) to run the actual software in!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Using a PWA means I don’t need to create installers and apps for every platform – I just make one website that you can install locally and run offline. A Major bonus is that the software can automatically update from the website if it needs to – boom, it’s now evergreen software \ud83d\ude42 This leaves me more time to make the software better for everyone, rather than hunting down a problem with a specific installer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is a new technology, but you can expect this to become pretty common now. Google, Microsoft, Apple and Firefox are all keen on this technology so it should be widely supported on all browsers pretty soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Wavemaker is a PWA (Progressive Web App), which at it’s most basic level is a website that you can install locally and run without an internet connection. If you visit https:\/\/wavemaker.cards with a browser that allows you to take advantage of this (Google Chrome at time of writing is the first) You get the install … <\/p>\n

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