7 Excellent Progressive Web App Examples

7 Apps That Prove PWAs Are Ready For Mainstream Consumer Adoption

Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) are becoming increasingly more capable, and every day new impressive PWAs are added to Appscope.

PWAs have existed in different forms ever since the launch of the first smartphone, which finally enabled a rich web browsing experience for mobile. For a long time, they lagged behind their native counterparts in both usage and usability but lately, they have shown themselves to be very real alternatives. Here are eight examples of great Progressive Web Apps that prove that PWAs are poised to enter a mass adoption phase in 2018.

Rapidly expanding into new markets, Uber was in need of an application that could be used by anyone regardless of device and network speed. Its solution was to develop a Progressive Web App that mimicked its native applications in functionality, but came at a significantly lighter weight. Using tiny libraries and SVGs instead of images where possible, the m.uber.com core app is only 50 kB gzipped and loads in less than three seconds — on 2G networks!

Learn more about Uber’s PWA at https://eng.uber.com/m-uber/