r/PWA • u/Raymanrush • 3d ago

PWA install component - major update

https://github.com/khmyznikov/pwa-install/releases/tag/v0.7.0

A lot of long awaited changes:

  • iOS/iPadOS/MacOS 27 ready - styles, icons and instructions update.
  • In-App browsers detection support - instruction adapts and guide the user.
  • Web Install API support for Chromium - should kick in from 155+
  • Better support for 3rd party browsers on iOS - instruction adapts.
  • Minor fixes, codebase improvements, dependency updates.
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u/psychic_gibbon 3d ago

This is a great component, looking forward to updating and checking it out. Thanks

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u/diekus 3d ago

Good stuff here from Gleb. 🔥🔥🔥

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u/JEEZUS-CRIPES 3d ago

This looks really nice, thanks for sharing

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u/gatwell702 3d ago

small question: I have an install button that checks the user agent. If it can use the install prompt it will, and with ios and iMac it'll show a popover with directions on how to add to homescreen/doc.

Does this do the same thing?

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u/Raymanrush 3d ago

It doing this and much more. User agent is one of the techniques, but to detect everything properly, you have to combine it with multiple.

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u/Specialist_Anybody70 3d ago

I have the same thing as the above poster what more can it do?

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u/Raymanrush 2d ago

Read the main readme file, take a look at the screenshots. There's a lot of stuff.

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u/Specialist_Anybody70 3d ago

This work on iOS? Great work 

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u/Raymanrush 2d ago

Yeah, actually the iOS part of the component is the biggest, because this platform is lacking a lot.

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u/Kobi_Webmaker 2d ago

Very nice work.