--- title: What are Progressive Web Apps? PWA Guide for Beginners description: Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) are installable web applications that combine the best parts of websites and mobile apps. They provide a high-quality user... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/what-are-progressive-web-apps-pwa-guide-for-beginners-lozqhuyzu twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: What are Progressive Web Apps? PWA Guide for Beginners | daily.dev og:description: Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) are installable web applications that combine the best parts of websites and mobile apps. They provide a high-quality user... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/what-are-progressive-web-apps-pwa-guide-for-beginners-lozqhuyzu og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/LoZqHuyzu.png og:image:alt: What are Progressive Web Apps? PWA Guide for Beginners og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # What are Progressive Web Apps? PWA Guide for Beginners **[freeCodeCamp](https://daily.dev/sources/freecodecamp)** · 7 min read · 44 upvotes · 2 comments ## Summary Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) are installable web applications that combine the best parts of websites and mobile apps. They provide a high-quality user experience, work offline, have minimal storage requirements, and offer automatic updates and push notifications. PWAs are cost-effective to develop, compatible with multiple devices, and have a reliable offline performance. The core concepts of PWAs include service workers, the app manifest, and caching. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@rusulazom** · 0 upvotes > thank you! **@amartinez** · 0 upvotes > Great article, thank you for sharing. > I wonder what the downsides of these PWAs are, but overall this looks really interesting. I hope to get the chance to try something out soon with this. --- Tags: [#offline-first](https://daily.dev/tags/offline-first), [#pwa](https://daily.dev/tags/pwa), [#ux](https://daily.dev/tags/ux), [#webdev](https://daily.dev/tags/webdev) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/what-are-progressive-web-apps-pwa-guide-for-beginners-lozqhuyzu) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"What are Progressive Web Apps? 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