On: Browsers, not apps, are the future of mobile

[brightball]

What would you say is the best place to learn your way around / experiment / hello world those types of examples?

[prophesi → brightball]

Google has a good intro on progressive web apps. https://codelabs.developers.google.com/codelabs/your-first-p...

Then you can grade how progressive your app is by running https://github.com/GoogleChrome/lighthouse

Push notifications still aren't widely supported, sadly. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Push_API

There's quite a sizable fence you have to jump to get into progressive web app development. They have to serve over https, localStorage & service workers can be a pain, and there's a lot of fallbacks to implement for unsupported browsers (I'm looking at you, Safari!).

There's also a great write-up on all that went into making pokedex.org http://www.pocketjavascript.com/blog/2015/11/23/introducing-...