[5.3][PWA] Progressive Web App for Joomla

[4digitalworld]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

@joomla currently does not have support for creating PWA out of the box, and PWA can easily replace a native app for Android, iOS, Windows, MacOS and other OS.

Describe the solution you'd like

I suggest adding PWA support to Joomla #44182

What does this mean?
This means that only 1 additional page with PWA settings will be added to the Control Panel + 3 files for PWA to work (app.webmanifest + sw.js + offline.html)

I have created topics with example files that I suggest adding to Joomla:
app.webmanifest (manifest.json): #19877
sw.js & offline.html: #44171
share_target (Web Share API): #44311

Additional context

What are Progressive Web Apps? - https://web.dev/articles/what-are-pwas
@w3c: Web Application Manifest - https://www.w3.org/TR/appmanifest/
@mdn: Web App Manifest - https://developer.mozilla.org/docs/Web/Manifest
@pwa-builder PWA Docs - https://docs.pwabuilder.com/
@microsoft PWA Docs - https://microsoft.github.io/win-student-devs/#/30DaysOfPWA/README

@pwa-builder (testing your PWA from @microsoft) - https://www.pwabuilder.com/

[4digitalworld]

Here are the results you can get in the PWA test using the example files I posted here.

You can test it here: https://www.pwabuilder.com

p.s. the value iarc_rating_id can only be found in the Google Play Console of your Android application (or in a similar application store)

[richard67]

Does it really need this new issue in addition to #19877 ?

[4digitalworld]

Does it really need this new issue in addition to #19877 ?

This issue will combine all the files needed for the PWA to work, the manifest #19877 is just one of the files needed for the PWA to work.

I posted example files (working versions), I hope someone will add this to the Joomla Control Panel settings.

[richard67]

If this issue here combines all, why does it then need the other two issues? Isn’t one issue enough? It is not really helpful to have several issues for one thing. Remember, this repository is maintained by volunteers, and their work should not be made more complicated that necessary.

[4digitalworld]

If this issue here combines all, why does it then need the other two issues? Isn’t one issue enough? It is not really helpful to have several issues for one thing. Remember, this repository is maintained by volunteers, and their work should not be made more complicated that necessary.

you can combine all 3 issues into one, this issue has 3 new files and one new settings page for Joomla.

[alikon]

i'm closing this in favour of #44171