Let's get going

I hope the preceding overview has given you a specific idea of what we're trying to accomplish with this application, and also the roadblocks to achieving those aims. There are a lot of challenges, but as we work through our user stories, we'll deal with them one by one, until we have a fast and functional Progressive Web App.

With the challenges mentioned, you can see the general trend: good performance and user experience under any condition. Certainly a worthy goal, and exactly why PWA techniques are applicable to any web app; they simply promise a better experience for everyone.

Once we start building our application, we'll also see that solving these problems is still a challenge, but all very achievable with React.

The next step is to get everything set up for our application, and create our basic folder structure with HTML and CSS.