VoV 055: Progressive Web Apps with Aaron Gustafson LIVE at Microsoft Ignite

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Host: Charles Max Wood

Special Guest: Aaron Gustafson

Episode Summary 

This episode of Views on Vue comes to you live from Microsoft Ignite. Charles Max Wood talks to Aaron Gustafson who has been a Web Developer for more than 20 years and is also the Editor in Chief at “A List Apart”. Aaron gives a brief background on his work in the web community, explains to listeners how web standardization has evolved over time, where Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) come from, where and how can they be installed, differences between them and regular websites and their advantages. They then delve into more technical details about service workers, factors affecting the boot up time of JavaScript apps, best practices and features that are available with PWAs.

Aaron mentions some resources people can use to learn about PWAs, talks about how every website can benefit from being a PWA, new features being introduced and the PWA vs Electron comparison. In the end, they also talk about life in general, that understanding what people have gone through and empathizing with them is important, as well as not making judgements based on people’s background, gender, race, health issues and so on.

Links

Creating & Enhancing Netscape Web Pages
A List Apart
A Progressive Roadmap for your Progressive Web App
Windows Dev Center – Progressive Web Apps
MDN web docs
PWA Stats
PWA Stats Twitter
Aaron’s website
Aaron’s Twitter
https://www.facebook.com/ViewsonVue
https://twitter.com/viewsonvue

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