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Microsoft to Bring Progressive Web Apps to Windows 10, Including Microsoft Store

Microsoft to Bring Progressive Web Apps to Windows 10, Including Microsoft Store 6s3r73

By Jagmeet Singh | Updated: 8 February 2018 15:59 IST

Highlights

Microsoft is bringing Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) to Windows 10
Microsoft Edge will also add for PWAs
Next Windows release is expected to bring PWAs to Microsoft Store

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PWAs aren't native apps but are Web apps designed to offer an experience similar to a native app. This means you can get notifications or interact with various Web-powered features, without installing any app package on your system. Companies such as Flipkart, MagicBricks, Housing.com, and Goibibo have their PWA versions available right now.

In a blog post, Microsoft plainly renamed version of the Windows Store. Microsoft engineers are beginning some experiments with crawling and indexing quality PWAs from the Web over the coming weeks to list them in the Microsoft Store. Additionally, developers will be provided with the option to submit their own PWAs for inclusion in the Microsoft Store.

Unlike Electron apps that are based on native OS-dependent code, a PWA app will be packaged as an AppX in Windows 10 and will run in its own sandboxed container. Developers can use Microsoft's free PWA Builder tool to start developing their native PWAs right from the data available on their sites. The proprietary tool mainly helps to generate a manifest file, build a Service Worker, and then directly publish a PWA in the Microsoft Store.

for Service Workers has been a part of Microsoft Edge since December 2017, though limited to Windows Insiders. However, there are plans to enable Service Worker and various technologies to enable features such as push notifications through PWAs with the release of EdgeHTML17 on stable Windows 10 builds in the coming future.

In the meantime, Microsoft is aiming to bring for accessing PWAs right from its Edge browser. The engineering team at Microsoft has apparently been using the Bing Crawler to identify PWAs on the Web for nearly a year. Further, it already reviewed nearly 1.5 million candidates through which a "small initial set" of PWAs have been identified that will be indexed for Windows 10 s to test the experience over the coming weeks.

"Over the coming months, we'll be ramping up our automatic indexing in the Microsoft Store from a few initial candidates to a broader sample. Throughout this process, we'll continue to vet our quality measures for PWAs, to make sure we're providing a valuable, trustworthy, and delightful experience to our mutual customers on Windows devices," the Microsoft team, comprises engineers Kyle Pflug, Kirupa Chinnathambi, Aaron Gustafson, and Iqbal Shahid, said in the blog post.

The arrival of PWAs on Windows 10 of course does not mean that Microsoft is ditching its Universal Windows Platform (UWP). The software giant still insists developers wishing to build a fully-tailored experience should opt for UWP. Having said that, PWAs are key solutions for the ones who want to make their apps available on multiple platforms including the Web. Microsoft is also emphasising that for developers who are planning a "brand-new product" with features that are available on the Web and in a cost-effective manner, PWAs are the best-suited option.

Interestingly, Microsoft is Firefox to see how PWAs advance the app experience.

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