Triggering the add to home screen prompt is dependent on different technical requirements being met. One of those is referencing a minimum set of icons in the web manifest file.

If you have a broken service worker or need to have a contingency plan rest assured it can be uninstalled. What are the scenarios and actions you can take?

The ability to generate fake or placeholder data, like fake names, emails, addresses and ids, is an important part of software development. Fakerjs is a node module w/ a rich set of fake data generation methods.

WebHint is an extensible web page testing tool. It can be used to identify poorly configured sites or broken web best practices. You can customize WebHint and extend it with your own rules and configuration plus add it to your continuous build workflow.

I recently presented to a group of Indian college students about my path to my development career. In doing so I traced my origins back to Atari Pong 🕹️, so I made it a Progressive Web App to share with everyone!

Removing & Clearing Items From JavaScript arrays can be confusing. Splice, substring, substr, pop, shift & filter can be used. Learn how they differ and work.

The Service worker cache limit ranges by browser and device constraints. Capacity typically starts at 50MB & ranges up to 20GB, with caveats I explore in this article.

See the "'node' is not recognized as an internal or external command" message? The Solution is simple! Just click to read how.

Microsoft Edge has a nice set of browser extensions available. Ad Blockers are some of the most popular. Learn how to find and install Edge browser extensions.

Apple shiped service worker & PWA feature support in iOS 11.3 & Safari 13. This ushers a new era in mobile apps with Progressive Web App support on iPhone & iPad.

What is a Progressive Web App (PWA)? What makes them run offline? What are the requirements and benefits? Why do businesses want progressive web apps instead of native?

The Google Search team just made an official announcement about their migration to a mobile first search index. What this means for web site owners and developers.

On Friday, March 23 2018, Twitter announced their Progressive Web App was not available in the Microsoft Windows Store. They are one of the first 'big name' brands to announce their PWA presence in the Windows Store.

JavaScript can be user to convert strings to all caps, all lower, title case, sentance case and more. See how you can manipulate string capitalization and even auto correct!

Document.createDocumentFragment is a better way of dynamically creating HTML components to be appended to a web page.

A cross-platform Progressive Web App (PWA) to manage your Philly Code Camp Schedule!

JavaScript has multiple iteration methods, starting with a traditional for loop and not the forEach method. Helper libraries like Lodash (forEach) and jQuery (each) can make it easier.

A cross-platform Progressive Web App (PWA) to manage your Philly Code Camp Schedule!

JavaScript 'use strict' triggers the JavaScript engines to throw errors for common poor coding practices and honest mistakes. This can make your code cleaner, faster and more secure. Learn what strict mode restricts and how it works.

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Recently there have been a wave of good books focusing on web performance optimization. Recently Etsy's Lara Hogan Swanson released a new book, Designing for Pe