DrupalCon Seattle 2019: Progressive Web Apps for Drupal - Reliable, Fast, Engaging

This talk focuses on push notifications and their implementation within the Open Social Drupal 8 distribution to enhance user engagement. The speaker discusses the characteristics of Progressive Web Apps (PWAs), emphasizing their reliability, speed, and engaging designs that allow them to feel like native apps on users' devices. Attendees will learn about the web app manifest, web push technology via the W3C Push API, and the role of service workers in creating responsive applications. The session also highlights the use of the Drupal message module as a foundation for this architecture and explores future contributions to the Drupal community, aiming to empower developers to integrate push notifications into their projects effectively.