Progressive Web App

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Hi there, I’m looking at emberjs as a base for a progressive web app. I believe, as I know ember is a great desktop app, it’s possible it could be at the least a good prototyping app for a mobile off-line project but also potentially a way to circumvent the ridiculous charges on the app stores (30% I believe). As my background is in emberjs (thanks Balint for your help btw), I’d much rather work in this environment than learn reactjs for mobile or the like.

I have some questions if anyone has the time to help:

  • Do you know of any successful emberjs based PWAs?
  • Any tips/blogs I can read to keep the download size as lightweight as possible?
  • I’m an 3.12 dev so far, are there any major advantages in moving right up the release chain to the latest and greatest? ie will embroider buy me anything major in terms of performance and size of app? My guess is yes btw.
  • What is the best, most stable(ish) version to build from knowing live is 6 months away.
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Sounds exciting!!

What defines success?

Personally, I had emberclear.io before I ran out of steam on it, so the infra that backs it is no longer running. It’s quite old now.

Any tips/blogs I can read to keep the download size as lightweight as possible?

all you need is await import(...) your big stuff (and lazily)

I’m an 3.12 dev so far, are there any major advantages in moving right up the release chain to the latest and greatest? ie will embroider buy me anything major in terms of performance and size of app? My guess is yes btw.

embroider starts being available to you at 3.28 – which is when you get most modern features – gjs/gts being the most exciting.

To use vite (right now), you’ll need something a bit more modern tho – at least 5.8 right now, maybe 6.x.

size of app

getting to embroider is key, as the old build system kind of over-emphasized the vendor.js file – and that can get quite huge – tho if you have ember-auto-import (a sort of embroider polyfill, but just for addons), that size becomes distributed quite nicely.

What is the best, most stable(ish) version to build from knowing live is 6 months away.

version of which thing? caveat: I’m probably the wrong person to ask as my non-professional projects are using alpha & unstable versions of everything