How to unlock Google Chrome’s hidden features using chrome://flags

Witt Head — Wed, 05 Feb 2020 09:28:41 +0000

Google Chrome, with its simplistic interface and its tie in with the Google ecosystem, has become one of the most widely used browsers today. Regardless of the device, you are currently using, there is a very high chance you are reading this page on the chrome browser. This is partly...

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Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) soon boot up at Windows Startup!

Ramya Santhosh — Tue, 04 Feb 2020 09:31:34 +0000

Google has quietly unveiled a minor upgrade that’ll soon make a substantial change in how PWAs are going to function on startup of your computer. We suggest you keep a close eye on all the new experimental feature flags that come out in chrome because they’re exciting and you get...

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Progressive Web App Shell: Instant Loading of Web Apps

Witt Head — Mon, 20 Jan 2020 05:34:21 +0000

A very easy, yet reliable way to make your Progressive Web App experience (PWA) more engaging and actually app-like is to ensure it is quick in function and to give it the outlook that it is quicker than it actually is, you can display certain elements of the app –...

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Understanding Service Worker Fetch Event and caching strategies

Witt Head — Mon, 20 Jan 2020 04:54:12 +0000

We have just finished covering Introduction to service workers, Installation and Activation of service workers. The next thing in the service worker life cycle is Fetch event. A fetch event occurs when a request is sent to the server. Normally, when an app requests resources like a stylesheet, images or...

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Service Workers Installation and Activation: PWA Essentials

Witt Head — Thu, 16 Jan 2020 07:17:14 +0000

We had covered until the registration of a service worker in our earlier article PWA Essentials: Introduction to Service Workers. The next events in the service worker life cycle are the INSTALL and ACTIVATE events. We shall see the Service Workers Installation and activation in this article. Installation and Activation...

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Spoof your Location using Google Chrome DevTools

Witt Head — Thu, 09 Jan 2020 11:06:43 +0000

Whenever you’re building or testing websites that tailor relevant content to users based on their geographical location or building a UI that changes depending on where the user is located, you might want to make sure that the design behaves as intended in different locations around the world. In this...

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PWA Essentials: Introduction to Service Workers

Witt Head — Sun, 17 Nov 2019 08:24:03 +0000

We have already discussed the various features of PWA which make them the future of web development. But have you ever wondered what is responsible for all these features that the web apps provide? It’s the SERVICE WORKERS. The service workers are the beating hearts of the progressive web applications, which...

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PWA Essentials: Manifest file explained for your Progressive Web App – Non Mandatory attributes

Witt Head — Mon, 04 Nov 2019 11:44:12 +0000

In the previous article, we read about the mandatory attributes in a manifest file for PWA. Now we will read about the other, not mandatory but rather useful members in the manifest that you can use to improve user experience in your web app. PWA Key-Value Pairs description The description...

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PWA Essentials: Manifest file explained for your Progressive Web App – Mandatory attributes

Witt Head — Mon, 04 Nov 2019 11:40:37 +0000

By now we’ve learnt that Progressive Web Applications are just instances of our browser windows on steroids, right!? We get the new tiny instance to do all the extra stuff like display a splash screen while opening, have a specified icon, change the colour theme of your status bar, make...

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A simple minimalist PWA checklist: HTML Customizations

Witt Head — Tue, 08 Oct 2019 07:15:48 +0000

Besides having to mandatorily serve your site over HTTPS, here are some of the necessary changes Google suggests as PWA checklist to be made in your HTML file for your website to qualify as a Progressive Web App. Make the Web page responsive Use meta viewport tag to automatically resize,...

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