Building a PWA with Svelte

Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) offer a blend of web and mobile app experiences, allowing companies to host apps on the internet instead of through mobile app stores. This tutorial demonstrates creating a PWA using Svelte, SvelteKit, and Sapper, highlighting their efficiency in building these apps. Svelte's capability to pre-render builds with minimal code is contrasted with traditional frameworks like React. Key PWA features such as service workers and web manifests are explored, with service workers acting as proxies to manage caching and offline functionality, while web manifests allow apps to be installed like native applications. The tutorial provides step-by-step guidance on setting up a PWA using Svelte, including creating service workers and manifest files, and extends to using SvelteKit and Sapper, noting Sapper's focus shift to its successor, SvelteKit. The tutorial concludes by emphasizing the growing relevance of PWAs due to their native app-like capabilities and the ease of building them with modern frameworks like Svelte.