PWA Support

[FlorianRappl]

New Feature Proposal

For more information, see the CONTRIBUTING guide.

Description

It should be easily possible to create a progressive web app for a Piral instance via an opt-in plugin in form of another package (e.g., piral-pwa).

The package must come with possibilities to determine the PWA options / manifest. As such it may not be exclusive to JS/TS code, but potentially also in other forms (some manifest.json / package.json extensions ...).

For Parcel implementation details see parcel-bundler/parcel#301.

Some Parcel plugins are already based on the most used option; Workbox.

Background

Piral instances are SPA-first. As such they are perfectly suited for offline-first scenarios. This may not apply to every Piral instance, and further work (e.g., abstracting away some authentication mechanism) may be required. Nevertheless, some people may desire a very simple way to create a PWA for their Piral instance (and its a great showcase).

Discussion

Determines a lot on the ability of Parcel to make this work. Maybe the piral-cli requires some exetnsion mechanism for it. This was planned anyway for the future.

[FlorianRappl]

Landed in the preview!