Welcoming Progressive Web Apps to Microsoft Edge and Windows 10

A little over a year ago, we outline our vision to bring Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) to the more than half a billion devices running Windows 10. We believe PWAs are key to the web’s future, and couldn’t be microsoft closing stores more excited Support.Microsoft.Com/Help about their brad smith microsoft potential to enable more immersive Microsoft Customer Service web app experiences across Microsoft Support Phone Number all device form factors.

Today, we’re excited to take a major step from vision to reality, starting with some updates on previewing PWAs in Windows and our roadmap to bring PWAs to the Microsoft Store.

Beginning with, we have enabled Service Workers and push notifications by default in preview builds of Microsoft Edge—you can learn more about those features in Ali’s post, “Service worker Going beyond the page.” This completes Support.Microsoft.Com/Help the suite of technologies ncluding Fetch networking Microsoft Support Phone Number and the Push and Cache APIs that lays the technical foundation for PWAs on Windows 10.

Over the coming weeks, we’re also kicking off some experiments with crawling and indexing quality PWAs from the Web Microsoft Customer Service to list them in the Microsoft Store, where users can find them just microsoft closing stores like any other app on Windows 10.

In this post, we’ll give a quick introduction to Progressive Web Apps – what they are, the problems they solve, and how we’ll be enabling them across Windows 10. We’ll explore how our indexing experiments will ramp to Support.Microsoft.Com/Help an end-to-end PWA

discovery experience later this year brad smith microsoft, and how we’ll empower developers to differentiate their PWAs on Windows – including allowing developers Microsoft Support Phone Number   to claim and monetize their PWAs in the Store, interact with customers via reviews and telemetry, and enhance the app with WinRT capabilities.

Technologically speaking, PWAs are web apps, progressively enhanced with modern web technologies (Service Worker, Fetch networking, Cache API, Push notifications, Web App Manifest) to provide a more app-like experience.

Unlike a “packaged” web app experience, PWAs are hosted on your servers and can be updated without issuing new updates to an app store Microsoft Customer Service. Additionally, new web standards microsoft closing stores (such as Service Worker) enable interoperable ways Microsoft Support Phone Number to implement push notifications, support for offline scenarios, background refreshing, and more, without platform-specific code.

It’s beyond the scope of this post to give a full crash course in the component technologies of a PWA (for that, we highly encourage you to check out progressive web apps in MDS for a starter). But at a high level, these features are built to enable native-like capabilities – offline, background wake/refresh, instant loading, push notifications, and installability.

Progressive Web Apps in the Microsoft Store

The first and most obvious distinction here is that we believe PWAs should be discoverable everywhere apps are discoverable – this means brad smith microsoft they should appear in the Microsoft Store alongside native apps.

In the next release of Windows 10, we intend to begin listing PWAs in the Microsoft Store. Progressive Web Apps installed via the Microsoft Store Microsoft Support Phone Number will be packaged as an appx in Windows 10 – running in their own sandboxed container Support.Microsoft.Com/Help, without  Microsoft Customer Service the visual or resource overhead of the browser.

This has a number of benefits to users: PWAs installed via the store will appear in “app” contexts like Start and Cortana search results, and have access to theavailable to UWP apps. They can differentiate their experience microsoft closing stores on Windows 10 with enhancements like access to local calender and contact data(with permission) and more.

It also has exciting benefits to developers! Listing a PWA in the Store gives developers the opportunity to get more insight into their users with channels like reviews Microsoft Support Phone Number and ratings in the Store anytics on installs uninstall, share and performance, and more. It also provides more natural and discoverable access to your web experience Support.Microsoft.Com/Help on devices where the browser is a less natural entry point, such as Xbox, Windows Mixed Reality, and other non-PC form factors.

The road from the Web to the Microsoft Store

PWAs provide a natural signal of intent to be treated as “app-like” in the Web App Manifest, which allows us to leverage Bing’s web crawler in combination with our Store catalog to identify the best candidates for indexing.

The Microsoft Store has a two-pronged approach to publishing Progressive Web Apps:

1. Developers Microsoft Customer Service can proactively submit Progressive Support.Microsoft.Com/Help Web Apps to brad smith microsoft the Microsoft Store
2. The Microsoft Store, powered by microsoft closing stores the Bing crawler Microsoft Support Phone Number, will automatically index selected quality Progressive Web Apps

Submitting to the Microsoft Store with PWA Builder

Proactively submitting a PWA to the Microsoft Store requires generating an AppX containing your PWA and

The easiest way to generate an AppX with your PWA is THE FREE PWAbuilder tool. PWA Builder can generate  Microsoft Customer Service a complete AppX for publishing Microsoft Support Phone Number using your existing site and Web App Manifest – both website and CLI options are available.