#168: Progressive Web Apps Are A Toolkit, Not A Recipe

Mobile Web Weekly July 26, 2017   #168 Brian Rinaldi recommends Enhancing CSS Layout: From Floats To Flexbox To Grid — Manuel Matuzović thinks Grid is “one of the most exciting developments since responsive design” adding that we should “get the best out of it as soon as possible”. Smashing Magazine Brian Rinaldi recommends Can Cordova Fit Your Target Industry? — Looks at what types of apps the author believes are good candidates for Cordova development. Anastasia Yaskevich Sponsored Set Up Real-Time Crash Reporting For Your Web and Mobile Apps — Join thousands of software development teams who discover and reproduce errors and crashes affecting their users with greater speed and accuracy. Learn more... RAYGUN Holly Schinsky recommends We Now Have A Community-Approved Progressive Web Apps Logo — Maxim Salnikov initiated a call for a “community-approved” PWA logo last month. Now we have one. Peter O'Shaughnessy Holly Schinsky recommends Progressive Web Apps Are A Toolkit, Not A Recipe — Many think of the term ‘Progressive Web App’ as a recipe of features that must be combined together but devs shouldn’t be looking at it as an all or nothing approach. Peter O'Shaughnessy Brian Rinaldi recommends Using Viewport Units to Scale Fixed Layouts — Sebastian Eberlein explores ‘edge cases’ where scaling a fixed layout with viewport units can be a viable solution. Hacker Noon Holly Schinsky recommends Ionic Dev Survey Says: There’s No Better Time to Be A Web Developer — The results from the first-ever Ionic Developer Survey, with input from more than 13,000 community members who shared what tools and technology they use, and what types of apps they’re building. Ionic Chris Brandrick recommends Optimizing Performance of A-Frame Scenes for Mobile Devices — Using benchmarking to figure out the level of 3D complexity a mobile phone is capable of, and determining which performance metrics are required for such a benchmark. Mozilla Hacks Brian Rinaldi recommends User Agent Parsing: How It Works and How It Can Be Used — An in-depth look at user agent parsing, the pros and cons, and is it useful for device detection. Martin Clancy Holly Schinsky recommends A Beginner's Guide to HTML5 Cross-Browser Polyfills — Oliver Williams shows how polyfills let you write modern code that will work everywhere. SitePoint Peter Cooper recommends Implementing AMP Forms from Start to Finish with amp-form — How to implement forms in AMP using practical examples such as submitting a search on a blog and collecting newsletter subscribers. Paul Shapiro Brian Rinaldi recommends How to Use AMP with WordPress — Have you used Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages to display your content to mobile audiences? Here’s some pointers on using AMP with WordPress. SitePoint Brian Rinaldi recommends How To Implement In-App Ratings For iOS Ionic Apps Ashteya Biharisingh Holly Schinsky recommends How to Get Started with Ionic Framework 3 on Mac and Windows — The first post in a series covering building hybrid apps for both iOS and Android with Ionic Framework 3. Nikola Brežnjak Holly Schinsky recommends A Progressive Web Application with Vue.js, Webpack + Material Design — The third part in a series that aims to build a basic but complete Progressive Web Application with VueJs, Webpack and Material Design. Sicara Sponsored Building a realtime feed with Node.js and AMP — How to develop a feed with pagination using the amp-live-list component. Pusher Holly Schinsky recommends 5 Ways to Ensure A Great UX for Progressive Web Apps — Do these five things to ensure that your PWA is performant, usable, and takes advantage of new web standards. Poli Dey Holly Schinsky recommends ionic-twitter-pwa: mobile.twitter.com PWA Rewritten with Ionic — A sample app showing the mobile.twitter.com Progressive Web App rewritten with Ionic. Julien Renaux

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