Optimizing PWAs For Different Display Modes — Smashing Magazine
September 5, 2025
Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) are a great way to make apps built for the web feel native, but in moving away from a browser environment, we can introduce usability issues. Declan covers how we can modify our app depending on what display mode is applied to mitigate these issues.
Source: Optimizing PWAs For Different Display Modes — Smashing Magazine
Progressive Web Apps were first introduced to the world at our Code conference in 2015 by Alex Russell, who along with Frances Berman coined the term and outlined the broad concepts in an essay around that time.
We’ve been big fans from the very beginning.
Here, Declan Chidlow looks at how different contexts for our apps (whether that be mobile, desktop, or other platforms) may give rise to specific challenges for our users and considers what we can do about that.
