--- title: "What are Progressive Web Apps? PWA Guide for Beginners" url: https://daily.dev/posts/what-are-progressive-web-apps-pwa-guide-for-beginners-lozqhuyzu source_url: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/what-are-progressive-web-apps-pwa-guide/ type: article source: "freeCodeCamp" published: 2024-01-18T18:58:40.049Z updated: 2026-07-09T02:12:32.786Z tags: ["offline-first", "pwa", "ux", "webdev"] reading_time: 7 upvotes: 44 comments: 2 language: 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. ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- 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)