Replying to Avatar Guy Swann

Is a web app able to store anything locally to speak of? ie. What if anything will load without an internet connection, and can that be a changed or is it essentially nothing more than a website bookmark essentially built to behave like an app?

Genuine curious, I don’t really know the distinction exactly.
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Veil 2y ago

The storage API and indexDB are available as places to store application-specific data (as previously mentioned).

The other key browser API for PWAs is service workers. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Service_Worker_API/Using_Service_Workers

These are JavaScript workers that are allowed to run independently of the document and respond to network requests on a given origin (essentially acting as the server for offline use cases).

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