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Notes from shipping a real-world PWA in Korea: Vite SSG is worth it. SPAs lose Korean SEO because Naver's crawler doesn't fully render JS. Leaflet > Mapbox for cost-sensitive projects. Free OSM tiles + zero cost. Firebase Hosting rewrites let you have deep URLs (/city/suwon) without a backend. KakaoTalk share is non-negotiable in Korea — 70%+ of social traffic. PWA install banner: don't auto-prompt, let the user discover. Project: https://gyeonggi-currency-map.web.app?ref=devto&utm_source=devto&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=multi-site-bot

This is a reprint from my tips blog. You can find the original article here: [ https://tips.ojapp.app/en/ios-android-pwa-goal-difference-3/ ] Android vs. iPhone: Different Goals for PWAs When people talk about PWAs, the explanation often sounds like this: Android supports PWAs. iPhone does not support PWAs very well. If you only look at the PWA specifications, this explanation is easy to understand. Android Chrome supports manifest.json, Service Worker, installation, notifications, shortcuts, and many other PWA features quite strongly. iPhone Safari, on the other hand, does not behave the same way as Android. But after testing PWAs on both iPhone and Android many times, I started to see the difference in another way. More accurately, Android and iPhone have different goals for PWAs. That is the biggest difference I noticed while testing repeatedly. Android tries to turn web pages into apps Android PWAs are clearly designed in the direction of making web pages feel closer to native apps. The idea is to take a website opened in the browser and move it toward a native-app-like experience. This direction is very strong on Android. That is why many PWA-related features are well supported. manifest.json Service Worker Push notifications Install Prompt Shortcuts theme_color background_color maskable icons display modes orientation Of course, it is not perfect. Manifest cache can be stubborn, multiple PWAs on the same domain can become confusing, and real-device testing can still create plenty of traps. Even so, when you build according to the PWA specification, Android usually responds in a fairly straightforward way. For example, if you set display: fullscreen , the app feels much more full-screen. theme_color is often reflected in the toolbar color. orientation also works quite strongly on Android. In other words, for Android, a PWA is an app made from the Web . iPhone starts from the experience of placing web pages on the home screen iPhone is different. Even before the

Most "Shopware vs Shopify" posts compare dashboards, app stores, and pricing tables. None of that matters to you until the day a client asks for something the platform won't let you build. Then the comparison stops being a feature grid and becomes a question about ceilings: how high can I go before the platform says no, and what happens when I hit it? That's the only axis I care about as a developer, so that's the one I'll argue on. Shopify is an outstanding product. It's also a closed SaaS that decides, on your behalf, where customization ends. Shopware is open source built on Symfony, which means the ceiling is "however far PHP and HTTP will take you." Below are the three places that difference actually bites, with code. Angle 1: The checkout is the wall This is the headline because it's where most agency developers first hit something they cannot do. For years the Shopify answer to "customize the checkout" was checkout.liquid . That era is over. Shopify deprecated checkout.liquid in favour of Checkout Extensibility . Plus stores had to migrate their Thank-you and Order-status pages by August 28, 2025 , and in January 2026 Shopify began auto-upgrading stores — wiping customizations built on additional scripts, script-tag apps, or checkout.liquid . Non-Plus stores have until August 26, 2026 , and legacy Shopify Scripts keep working only until June 30, 2026 . ( Shopify migration timeline ) The replacement, Checkout Extensibility, is genuinely more upgrade-safe. It's also a smaller box. You get Checkout UI Extensions (declarative components that render in slots Shopify defines) and Shopify Functions for backend logic — and that's the surface. You don't own the checkout template; you decorate the pieces Shopify exposes. Worth noting: full visual checkout customization (branding API, custom fields beyond the defaults, full UI extension power) is gated to Shopify Plus anyway. On Shopware, the checkout is a Twig template like every other page, and you override it the sam

This week, the first offline-first PWA went live on WebsitePublisher.ai . A travel blog that works without internet. Write posts on a plane, attach photos, and everything syncs the moment you reconnect. Service Worker, IndexedDB, sync queue — the full stack. The twist: it was built entirely through conversation with an AI assistant. No IDE, no terminal, no deploy pipeline. How that works WebsitePublisher.ai exposes 92 integrations as building blocks via MCP (Model Context Protocol). Any AI assistant — ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, Windsurf, Copilot, Gemini, Grok, Mistral — connects to the same runtime and assembles these blocks into working applications. The offline-first PWA is one of those blocks. The AI doesn't generate a Service Worker from scratch. It activates a proven, tested building block and configures it for the use case. We call this wave coding — one deliberate wave of proven pieces, instead of 15 fragile vibe-coding attempts. What shipped recently Offline-first PWA building block — push/pull sync, conflict handling, IndexedDB storage, works on iOS 92 integrations (up from 78) — 45 built-in, 47 bring-your-own-key Integration stacks — pre-composed combinations: e-commerce (13 integrations), lead generation, B2B prospecting, booking, content/blog 9 AI platforms supported — all via MCP, no vendor lock-in 416 API endpoints across the platform ## The architecture in short AI assistant (any) → MCP → WebsitePublisher runtime ├── PAPI (pages + assets) ├── MAPI (structured data) ├── SAPI (forms + auth + sessions) ├── IAPI (integration proxy) ├── VAPI (encrypted vault) └── AAPI (scheduled AI agents) Credentials never touch the AI. They're stored AES-256-GCM encrypted in the vault and injected server-side during execution. The positioning We're not competing with Lovable or Bolt on the chat interface. We're the Supabase + Vercel + n8n underneath — reachable via whichever AI you already use. The platform your AI builds on. websitepublisher.ai