PWA

A web application manifest is a standardized JSON file that is used when installing a PWA - progressive web application on a user's device. It’s responsible for providing a “native-like” view of the application for users. Let’s see how to create one for your app [...]

According to DataReportal, in 2020, the number of mobile internet users exceeded 4.5 billion. This stimulated the growth of demand for mobile sites, which are not inferior to mobile applications in terms of page load speed and usability. The popularity of regular mobile apps, on the contrary, has noticeably dropped [...]

Introduced just 5 years ago to make up for the deficiencies of native apps, Progressive Web Apps have evolved over this short time from a sketch or an essay in the field into a viable rival to them. PWAs are websites behaving like apps, so they combine the best of the two worlds. They don’t need installation, weigh little, can operate fairly well under bad internet connection conditions, and are easily discoverable by search engines. Besides, they can be run on all smartphones with any screen size and operational system.

Have you paid attention to how much the advent of the digital era changed our language? User interface, URL, plugin, software, outsourcing – these words have stopped being terms known to a narrow circle of high-fi experts and turned into bywords familiar to average gadget owners as well. Alongside ushering new vocabulary, technical progress in the IT industry has changed the meaning of many existing words. In the mind of most people of the second millennium, tool is not a hammer anymore, but rather Angular or React, platform has nothing to do with railroads but may be related to iOS, and cloud shouldn’t be looked for in the sky above our head.

Do you have a smartphone? As the global number of these devices exceeded 3.5 billion in 2020 with the forecast for the next year to reach 3.8, this is probably a rhetoric question. Gadgets of different kinds have become an inalienable part of everybody’s routine determining to a large extent our habits, views, and social mores. We like to have all our life encapsulated inside this magical box. Contacts, work, shopping, entertainment, travel – it seems that no aspect of the life of a modern human is left outside the ken of their smartphone.

Angular is an essential JS framework that confidently holds second place in popularity among front-end developers after its main competitor – the ReactJS library.

Modern informational technologies world resides in a constant state of movement. Fresh-new developments and fascinating ideas are springing up with an enviable frequency.

It is amazing to realize how much the development of modern technologies has revolutionized our lives. People of the 21st century seem to have totally forgotten the B.C. (that is Before Computers) era.