Progressive Web Apps (PWA)

Hey everyone, so I made a post about Progressive web apps a year ago, and wanted to get an update from Wix or it’s users to see what’s up.

I want to turn my site into a Progressive Web App for IOS.
It goes as follows:

  • User visits site, Mobile site view loads
  • User adds site to homepage
  • User now has the website in fullscreen view as an app.

Is this possible to achieve? I know that there is an app in the market that allows to convert the site into a PWA, but its not quite there yet.

I think having the ability to make a site into a PWA would be a great feature, I mean, you could literally make an app bruh…

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See the article How To: Turn your site into a Mobile Web App . I did this for one of my sites and it works fine.

Oh… My… God… I wish I had seen that article earlier. Thank you so much. I love design and I wanted to get more into mobile site view, and this of course sparked interest in creating PWA’s.

PWA is not only a shortcut on homepage. Because that can be easily done without any coding at all. But I believe that PWA is the future.
PWA :
lloads fast
can have push notifications
works offline
like native app uix
access from homescreen
direct downloadable (not via store/marketplace)
has access to native features (not all, because of security reasons)

The website only needs some modifications:
manifest data
service worker + caching

Question is: can we do this in the future with wix sites (and coding) ?

Kind regards.

Feel free to request this as a new feature:

@yisrael-wix Thank you for advise. I will send a request