Hello Progressive Web Apps!
Goodbye “backend-doing-frontend” and the rest of you lot
At Humblebee, we are currently in the midst of creating a new technical platform with which to guide and base our work. There are a lot of different levels and angles (frontend, backend, designer-developer handoffs, processes…) in such an undertaking, but for now I will shortly present why we at Humblebee are looking to Progressive Web Apps as our fundamental architecture for web projects.
TL;DR version: Using PWAs gives clients a product in a much shorter timeframe, end-users get a snappier experience, and developers have it way easier when creating applications.
People use their phones all the time. We are accustomed to using them for practically everything nowadays. In the 10 years since the first iPhone, phones have gotten extremely popular and are surpassing the use of computers for a variety of use cases. Phone companies as well as browser vendors have also increasingly found a shared path for the web’s core tech. Long gone (well, mostly) are the days of odd browser quirks and insistent pressure by individual vendors to implement technology in entirely separatist manners. One…
