Web FTW! 🙂 PWA is a web app that make use of new Web and JavaScript API to deliver a new whole experience similar to an native app on the web.
To achieve this experience this app needs to meet some requirements:
- Safety - must be served via HTTPS to ensure that the real content has not been tampered.
- Responsive - can fit all resolutions like desktop, tablet and mobile.
- Progressive- work in all modern browsers because they use progressive enhancement concepts.
- Connectivity independent - need to work on any type of connection, including offline.
- Engageable - using push notifications, “add to home” feature to be more app-like.
You can find more specific requirements at Google Documentation
To build this app we will use a specific framework - Angular and tools like WebSocket and Service Worker
For help in preparing your winning proposal, you can email me at karl.prieb@rocket.chat or DM me at the demo server.
After (if) your proposal is selected, the communication between mentor and students should be daily. For public conversations Github issues must be used and for more private subjects you can use Rocket.Chat direct messages on demo server.
To start the project we created a few milestones:
- Project Architecture - All architect decision for our future app.
- Realtime API Implementation - Implementation of the Rocket.Chat Realtime API with WebSocket
- Basic features - Some basic as user registration and login system, channels and users lists, working channels with messages.
Others milestones will be created with the student when we start to work on the project.
NOTE: Please check back frequently. We will keep this document updated all the time.