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Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) are an attempt at marrying the best features offered by modern browsers to the best of a native application. PWAs are a lot like native applications but are accessible and deployed from web servers via URLs, so a user won’t need to visit an app store to download your application. If you’re on a desktop, using Chrome, and have the appropriate flags turned on, you will be prompted to install the app when you visit the site. What makes it different from a web application is that it can be “installed” on your system. You can still access it offline like any other native application by leveraging data cached during your last interactions with the app. PWAs need to meet the below set of essential requirements to be qualified as one. They need to be:

Firebase started out as a cloud database which grew to include notifications, authentication, and other features. At face value, it looks interesting, allowing mobile devices to load and store data using the Firebase API, eliminating the need for owning any back-end server or hosting. To keep in sync easily, it’s possible for different devices using Firebase to get events on data changes. As its native format, the database uses JSON, a good fit for a web or mobile application. Firebase supports Web, Android, and iOS. This goes to mean it supports native apps plus a website or a web-based admin component. V3, the latest version of Firebase, is now completely hosted on Google Cloud and introduced us to some nice features like the Push notifications for iOS/Android and cloud storage.