Kevin Basset is the Founder at Progressier, a software toolkit used by 5,000+ apps to emancipate themselves from the app stores. On paper, PWAs are the perfect alternative to native apps: only one code base to manage, instant updates that require no approval, and no commissions to pay on in-app…

Kevin Basset is the Founder at Progressier, a software toolkit used by 5,000+ apps to emancipate themselves from the app stores. I came across a post on LinkedIn and another on Twitter pointing out that Stripe uses invalid hreflang tags to specify alternate versions of their site in other languages. …

Kevin Basset is the Founder at Progressier, a software toolkit used by 5,000+ apps to emancipate themselves from the app stores. Apple announced at WWDC22 that Web Push is finally coming to Safari. It’s already available in Safari 16 Beta on macOS. …

Being the maker of Progressier, I felt like I absolutely had to write about Wordle. This little web-based game has received a disproportionate amount of attention from the media in the past 30 days — like no other web app ever before, really. Between Wordle going viral, unscrupulous developers shamelessly…

When COVID started spreading in China in January 2020, I took it upon myself to build The Coronavirus App. That simple PWA has since been used by more than 15 million individual users. The problems I encountered while building that app then inspired me to create Progressier, a SaaS platform…

Ever wondered how to create an app manifest with different icons on desktop and mobile? — Every Progressive Web App has an app manifest, a simple JSON file that contains the basic information of your app, i.e. name, icon, description, etc. If you just want to add PWA functionality to your existing web app, Progressier has everything you need (including dynamic app icons options). But if…

Learn more about opaque responses, why they’re a problem and how you should deal with them in your service worker. Progressier handles opaque responses automatically so that you don’t have worry about them. …

One of the most common questions we get asked at Progressier pertains to client-side caching. How does one ensure a PWA always displays up-to-date data and assets while also making good use of caching? Although a PWA often looks and feels like a native app, from a technical perspective it…

And this caching strategy builder was by far the most difficult product I’ve ever developed — A couple of days ago, we finally released an exciting new Progressier feature which our customers have been relentlessly requesting since we launched our beta. With our caching strategy builder, anyone who owns a web app can easily configure caching strategies — with toggles and dropdown rather than complicated regex…