Architectural Pattern of Progressive Web and Background Synchronization

Progressive Web Applications emerged as a better alternative to traditional mobile application development. Possessing the best of both native applications and web applications, PWA also offers advantages like offline loading of the application as well as services like push notifications and background synchronization to enhance user engagement. The paper provides an overview of using Progressive Web Apps as modern application development cycle. We have discussed in detail in the paper how progressiveness in a web application offers advantage over native application. The paper also discusses about the architectural pattern followed to develop progressive web apps to improve loading time of the app. API provided by the service workers have also been discussed in detail including push notifications and background synchronization to provide native app like experience. A case study has been carried out to depict the working of various progressive features.