Magento 2 PWA - Progressive Web Application for Magento 2

Progressive Web Application (PWA) by CedCommerce for Magento 2 provides customers an enhanced app-like experience comprising the best and latest web capabilities. PWA is different from the traditionally used apps. They are rather experiences that bring to the table the best of both the worlds of websites and apps.

Key features :

• Homescreen Shortcut: Customers will be able to add the app shortcut to their mobile home screen to experience app-like features using our Magento 2 progressive web application.
• Push notification: Notification will be sent to customers even when the browser is not open for any event on Magento 2 website.
• Offline Mode Operation: The progressive app will work even when there is poor or no internet connectivity on your Magento site for the pages which are already visited by the customer.
• Improves load speed: It will improve the page load speed of your Magento website.

Overview

A Progressive Web App (PWA) is a web application that deploys latest web technologies to make a web application provide experiences similar to that of an app. This is achieved by making use of web app manifest files and service workers.Considering the capabilities of Progressive web apps we can say that it fills the gap between a classic web application and a desktop. or a native mobile application.

When the customers visit the site for the first time, they will be invited to use the Progressive Web App by adding it to their home screen with just one click, and an icon of the website would be added to their mobile’s home screen. So that when next time customer will be using your site, he will be able to directly open it from the homescreen and experience app-like look and feel of your website with high speed. Therefore, Progressive Web Application for Magento 2 from CedCommerce, will help customers to experience app-like feature from their website.

Features

PWA cost much less than native apps to develop, and can be implemented using your existing web framework with no additional programming languages and technologies.

Push notifications will be sent to the customers even they are not using the app to keep them updated with promotional offers, new update on website, etc.

PWA will always sync in the background and use caching to maintain offline functionality.

PWA will even work when the customer is not having internet connectivity or low speed. It will not allow access to any new data but you may get through the already used data.

Customer can add the shortcut on their home screen and experience app-like look and feel.

Just like normal website, PWAs can also be used on any platform, therefore, Progressive Web Apps are cross-platform.

Since there is no requirement to download any app therefore no app store is required.

Once the PWA will be added to homescreen, it will exactly works like a native app.

Admin can set the splash background and theme color of the Progressive Web Apps.

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