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Progressive Web Applications: when “progressive” sounds ironic

TalkinRussianat HolyJS 2025 Autumn · 2025-11-20..11-21· [pwa, web-platform]
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Talk covers building a Progressive Web App that replaces native apps across platforms (iOS, Huawei, etc.), describing unexpected cross-platform limitations and hacks used to keep the service stable. It explains why the team dropped Firebase and how they implemented their own notification and data-exchange infrastructure to cope with platform restrictions and unpredictable mobile OS behavior.

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  1. 0:00PWA introduction
  2. 1:01What are PWAs
  3. 2:27Service Worker updates
  4. 8:06Service Worker lifespan iOS/Android
  5. 11:17Service Worker limits
  6. 14:50Push notifications Firebase issues
  7. 19:07Dropping Firebase Messaging
  8. 24:09Push click issues
  9. 27:19Lost push clicks
  10. 29:28Platform issues summary
  11. 36:06Q&A
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