Talking Drupal #362 - Progressive Web Apps

Today we are talking about Progressive Web Apps with Alex Borsody and Wilfred Arambhan.

www.talkingDrupal.com/362

Topics

• What are Progressive Web Apps (PWAs)
• How is a PWA different from a native app or cross platform app
• What features point towards a PWA
• What features are difficult to implement
• Where do they store their data
• What are some use cases
• What does the PWA module do
• Why would you use the PWA module
• Potential enhancements to the PWA module
• Google's Plans
• Security

Resources

• A Drupal developer's guide to Progressive Web Apps
• An almost complete guide to PWAs+, using Drupal as the glue code (though many other technology will do)
• Project Fugu/web capabilities
• Web capabilities tracker.
  • WebAuthn
  • Web Workers
  • Programmable cache
  • What Web Can Do
• Native/App store submission
  • Ionic
  • WKWebView
• evaluateJavascript()
  • https://www.hackingwithswift.com/example-code/wkwebview/how-to-run-javascript-on-a-wkwebview-with-evaluatejavascript
  • https://developer.chrome.com/docs/android/trusted-web-activity/
  • https://www.pwabuilder.com/
• Moonraft
• carbonPay

Guests

Alex Borsody - @alexborsody
Wilfred Arambhan - @wilfredarambhan

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
Cathy Theys - @YesCT

MOTW

Responsive Tables Filter
It makes the following tables responsive:

• Any tables within fields where Drupal text format filters can be applied
• Views tables