Can a Rails app be converted into a Progressive Web App?

Rails • Asked September 9, 2018 9:09am by jun

jun 810 XP September 9, 2018 9:09am

I was looking for a way to create a mobile client for my Rails App / API.

I came upon PWAs but I couldn't find any info on how to use it for Rails.

Is it possible?

Monroe Mann 5,090 XP September 10, 2018 5:59pm

I know gonative.io can turn your rails app directly into a native mobile app on android and ios. I don't know if it works for APIs. Also, I haven't yet done it myself, but there's a cool feature on the homepage. Just type in your rails app url and it automatically shows you what it would look like as a mobile app. Costs about $600 I think to do the conversion.

jun 810 XP September 28, 2018 7:33am

I'm going through this tutorial to add service workers to Rails. But it's incomplete. I hope Chris can make a better tutorial:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqobr9fwH_M

It uses Webpush and service-worker-rails

https://github.com/zaru/webpush
https://github.com/rossta/serviceworker-rails

Christophe Moins 4,230 XP March 28, 2019 5:35pm

+1 for an episode on service worker with rails ;-)

mark_lemberg 20 XP May 7, 2019 9:06am

progressive app development is not easy to learn and to teach too. https://keenethics.com/tech-apps-progressive-web-appsin the page you can find tone of useful info