PWA Support

[andrewrothman]

Hi there,

sharedrop.io is awesome! Thanks for building this app.

I think it'd be a nice addition to be installable as a PWA. This makes it easy to use as a standalone app (specifically makes this easier on desktop, where it shows up as an independent Mac app which can be placed in the user's dock). It also allows a nice fallback UI when the network is offline.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Progressive_web_apps/Introduction
https://developers.google.com/web/progressive-web-apps/desktop
https://medium.com/james-johnson/a-simple-progressive-web-app-tutorial-f9708e5f2605

Thank you for your consideration,
Andrew

[floppydisken]

It's almost criminal that sharedrop is not a PWA yet. I'd be very interested in this. I might even be the one to do it.

[szimek]

Ha! It is indeed :) I planned to rewrite it in React / Preact / Svelte / web components / ... and that's why I never invested much time into looking how to turn an Ember app into PWA. Also,

PR is very welcome!

[AlfonsoML]

Making it available as a PWA doesn't require any rewrite, just adding a web.manifest file and some icons, and then you can add extra capabilities from that point.
Look at https://docs.pwabuilder.com/#/home/pwa-intro