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lima on April 11, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Electron is flash for the desktop (2016)

They were deprecated because they aren't really necessary anymore now that you have things like service workers and NaCL. Never worked on mobile, too.

Progressive Web Apps is where it's at.

mijoharas on April 12, 2017 [–]

So I've liked what I've heard about Progressive web apps, but I was wondering if there is a solution for desktop? can you create a native icon that opens a new window with a PWA?

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