[HN Gopher] Show HN: Pep - Turn your site into a fast, installab...
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Show HN: Pep - Turn your site into a fast, installable Progressive
Web App (PWA)
Author : grun
Score : 38 points
Date : 2021-02-09 18:30 UTC (4 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (pep.dev)
(TXT) w3m dump (pep.dev)
| paveloom wrote:
| How is it different from modern browsers' built-in `turn a site
| in a PWA` feature? Chrome allows to install several sites as
| PWAs, Yandex Browser allows that for any site.
| grun wrote:
| Our goal is for you drop Pep in your website and Pep does
| everything it can to make your website the best it can be. That
| includes all aspects of performance: minified assets,
| responsive images, global CDN (Google), etc.
|
| So Pep goes far beyond just adding a shortcut to a website to
| open in its own window.
| [deleted]
| grun wrote:
| Hey guys! I'm Ansgar (https://github.com/gruns). I built Pep
| because I believe Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) are the future.
| They turn websites into apps that load quickly, work offline, and
| can be installed like native apps.
|
| But they they can be a lot of work. And hard to get right.
|
| We built Pep to solve that.
|
| I'd love to hear your thoughts -- good and bad. Feedback is how
| good products become great.
| adflux wrote:
| Will try this soon! Did a vue app before semi-manually, was
| quite a hassle
| grun wrote:
| Awesome!
|
| Let me know if you have any questions, comments, or
| suggestions. Feedback is how good products become great.
| adflux wrote:
| I will get back to you
| Gys wrote:
| Sorry, I understand you want this to be done for every website,
| but personally I hope this will not get wide spread. It reminds
| me of browser notifications and newsletter signups. Another thing
| I have to click away: 'please install our website as PWA NOW'.
| grun wrote:
| Ya. I feel you.
|
| We think every site knows their audience best and leave it up
| to sites to decide how lightly, or heavily, they want to
| encourage their users to install their PWA.
|
| By default, Chrome's UI is quite light.
| http://i.imgur.com/PkWjXie.png
| nhance wrote:
| What's actually involved in turning your site into a PWA? I don't
| see why this needs to be a subscription service vs a one-off or
| javascript library I can manage myself.
| grun wrote:
| Our goal is for you drop Pep in your website and Pep does
| everything it can to make your website the best it can be. That
| includes all aspects of speed: minified assets, responsive
| images, global CDN (Google), etc. The subscription covers
| those, as they incur ongoing costs for processing and
| distribution.
|
| This is interesting, though. Would you be more interested in
| Pep without all the additional, ongoing improvements? Akin mto
| a client side only version of Pep?
|
| Thank you!
| WalterSear wrote:
| It's not clear what this involves. Do I have to upload my site to
| your server?
| grun wrote:
| Nope! You just
|
| 1) Add a <script> tag to your site.
|
| and
|
| 2) Host Pep's Service Worker (https://pep.dev/pep-sw.js) on
| your site.
|
| That's it. Pep takes care of the rest, thanks to the magic of
| the Service Worker. Everything just works.
| 6510 wrote:
| Great stuff man. Even if it is that simple some documentation
| (and/or a video) is still nice. It appears for the target
| audience the offer sounds much to good to be true.
| whycombagator wrote:
| Love the idea, the second P in "pep" is cutoff on the homepage
| using an iPhone SE2.
| grun wrote:
| Awesome. Fixed!
|
| Thank you!
|
| P.S. Nice username. =]
| smallart wrote:
| Cool, it actually does what it claims to.
|
| I just added pep.dev/pep-sw.js to my site and am digging into the
| minified javascript. Confirmed my images are on the CDN and
| resized for the device, which should save a ton of bandwidth.
|
| The offline native feature seems super cool, going to try it
| out...
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