Progressive Web App (PWA)

A Progressive Web App is a website that has earned app privileges. Built on a service worker and a manifest, it can install to the home screen, launch full-screen without browser chrome, keep working offline, and send push notifications. To the person using it, it feels like an app. To the team maintaining it, it is still one web codebase with instant updates and no app-store gatekeeper.

The strategic appeal is reach per dollar. One build serves every platform, ships fixes the moment they deploy, and skips store review cycles and revenue cuts. For content, commerce, and dashboard-style products, a well-built PWA delivers most of what users actually want from an app at a fraction of the cost of native development.

The honest boundary: PWAs do not match native for heavy hardware access, advanced background processing, or maximum-performance games, and iOS support, while now real (including push), still trails Android in places. We build both, which keeps the recommendation clean: PWA when the web can carry the experience, native when the hardware demands it.