Improve PWA
I'm an Android user and I've often searched for native apps that integrate with Trakt but I always end up returning to the Trakt website itself because it offers more features, is more robust & also is quite quick.
For a better integration into the OS I always add the website to my homescreen to have the Chrome bar removed and have a separate entry in the Recents with the Trakt icon.
Now over the last few years/months Google has improved upon this simple add to home screen feature and offered "deeper" integration.
For example PWAs can show up in the app drawer (not just as a shortcut on the home screen).
PWAs get an own "App info" screen where we can manage notifications, permissions, storage among other settings.
A good example of this would be the Twitter's PWA.
Also the current Trakt web app shows a small Chrome icon in a corner which those other web app don't anymore.
I'm not exactly sure how these features can be activated but it should be fairly simple.
Felix Schröter
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Felix Schröter
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I just noticed that I already created a suggestion ("Web App / Offline Support") which includes some of my proposals here.
Mostly regarding the use of a service worker for caching & notifications.So, I guess this suggestion here should focus more on the initial PWA / "add to home screen" optimizations.
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Felix Schröter
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I've just had a look at your service worker on https://trakt.tv/service_worker.js
and it seems it basically does nothing:
"console.log('I am a Service Worker!');"
:D :DSo, here are some other areas where you could improve your web app:
- add (pre)caching to your service worker
- it seems you (partially) use server-side scripting, not sure if/how well you can cache anything with this architecture (see idea below)
- add push notificationssome more technical ideas:
- move to an SPA w/ app shell architecture
- w/ more strict differentiation between frontend & backend (this would help caching)