Progressive Web Apps Magento® 2 Extension

Due to the wide reach of smartphones, organizations continuously roll out more and more applications in order to reach out to as many customers as possible. As eCommerce becomes popular, companies are investing heavily to ensure a smooth experience for customers. Over time, there has been a behaviour observed among customers that they avoid downloading applications primarily due to a lack of space on their phones. This leads to a loss of revenue for brands, and sales go down.

To address this problem, SetuBridge has come up with a game changer, Integrate the Progressive Web Application  Magento 2 Extension to your eCommerce store. Using this technology, you will be able to deliver a mobile application like experience to your customers using an immense capability of your web browser. A Progressive Web Applications goes beyond a traditional web application and has user-cool features like sending push notifications through the browser itself. This takes away the barriers associated with your average mobile applications. We, at SetuBridge, take care of your headaches with integrating this simple PWA for Magento 2 which is laden with various features that will simplify the operations of your eCommerce Venture.

Features

• A Progressive Web Application (PWAs) launches in absence of low speed or no internet at all.
• This technology nullifies a need for a Play Store or an App Store to physically download an application in a customer’s phone.
• The admin panel is in charge of a look and feel of an entire application.
• Once a user sets display mode to full screen or standalone mode, a user will experience app like interaction.
• A PWA is installable on a phone as an app icon can be saved to your home page.
• The Splash screen appears when a user opens their phone.
• Further, an admin can also send notifications to the customers from time to time.

Once the user installs a Lighthouse extension, it will help you increase a PWA score, on the light speed tool launched by Google that validates this metric. Further, it is necessary for the site to be faster in order to obtain a good score on this tool. The Light speed add-on can be installed on chrome to check your PWA Score. Lastly, please go through this checklist provided by Google which must be adhered to in order to be eligible as a PWA.

Note: This isn't a solution for headless PWA because headless approach requires creating a bespoke theme with help of any JavaScript technology like react or angular or vue.js.

Progressive Web Apps Magento 2 Extension Set up:

1. Install the module from SetuBridge Store.
2. For using Magento PWA extension, go to STORE> Configuration > SETUBRIDGE >Progressive Web Apps Tab.

Extension Configuration: