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Developed at Facebook and released under an open source license in 2013, React was designed to overcome some of the existing problems with single page application frameworks available at the time.
By October of 2014 over 100,000 open source modules had been created on npm and today that number is almost 200,000.
On 28 October 2014, over 10 years since its inception, the HTML5 specification was released as a stable W3C recommendation completing the specification approval process.
In 2014, Forbes ranked Jobs’ early and short-lived fixation on Web Apps among his biggest blunders.
The term Progressive Web App was created in 2015 by Google, but the idea of putting mobile user experiences in the center of interest is not new.
2016 — FlipKart, India’s largest eCommerce platform, seeking to reinvent their digital experience, turns to PWA. The company saw 3x more time spent on the website; 40% higher re-engagement rate; 70% greater conversion rate among those arriving via “Add to Homescreen”; and 3x lower data usage.
2016 — AliExpress increased the conversion rate for new users by 104% with a new Progressive Web App.
2017 — Twitter launched Twitter Lite to significantly increase engagement and reduced data consumption by 70%.
2018 — Uber launches m.uber — a use case for developing markets.
The support for key PWA technology called “Service Workers” was introduced by Apple in 2018, but it came with a severe limitation, e.g., there was no support for push notifications.
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