A web app that feels native. Installable, offline-capable, fast — where PWAs are enough instead of going native.
Category · Frontend & UI
A web app that behaves like an app.
A Progressive Web App is a website that behaves like a native app: installable to the home screen, offline-capable, with push notifications. A service worker (which intercepts and caches requests) and a web app manifest (which defines name, icon and launch behaviour) make it possible.
It stays a web app — one codebase, no app-store review, instant updates.
When a PWA is enough.
When reach, fast delivery and simple maintenance matter more than deep device access. For portals, internal tools or self-service applications that we operate, a PWA saves the double effort of two native apps and the store hurdles.
Where native wins.
As soon as you need intensive hardware access, background processing or maximum performance — sensors, Bluetooth or compute-heavy graphics — the PWA hits its limits, especially on iOS. Then React Native or native is the more honest choice.