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PWABuilder - the simplest way to create progressive web apps across platforms and devices

Last month, a new version the PWABuilder, a community project led by Microsoft was released. PWABuilder is a PWA that easily takes a normal web app / web site and transforms it to a PWA.

PWABuilder 2.0 introduces the following new features:

  • A new more user friendly design
  • New snippets to support newer API's such as the Web Share API and the async Clipboard API

To get started browse to www.pwabuilder.com and enter the URL of your website:

After entering an URL, hit start and the PWABuilder app will scan your website for the availability of a manifest, serviceworkers and https, all prerequisites to have a PWA.

If any of these things are missing, the tool will report this and provide you with snippets and an example manifest to get started:

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