Enhancement: Request to Add Progressive Web App (PWA) Features to Improve User Experience

[pzcn]

What features would you like to see added?

I am reaching out to request the implementation of Progressive Web App (PWA) features on the website.

1.Service Workers for offline functionality and resource caching.
2.Web App Manifest to enable users to add the app to their home screens.
3.Push Notifications for real-time updates to users.

More details

Adding PWA features could help improve overall user engagement and experience by providing:

• Enhanced offline capabilities, allowing users continued access to the app in case of no or poor connectivity.
• Quick and easy access from the home screen without the need to download a traditional app.
• The ability to receive updates and notifications that keep users informed and involved with the latest developments and features of the project.

Which components are impacted by your request?

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[danny-avila]

Not currently planned.

Enhanced offline capabilities, allowing users continued access to the app in case of no or poor connectivity.

Already possible on host machine. The main UX is chat experience and managing settings/convos, which is all tied to the server. This really would just be bad UX all around as nothing would load and errors would abound

Quick and easy access from the home screen without the need to download a traditional app.

Already possible: https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/bookmark-favorite-webpages-iph42ab2f3a7/ios

The ability to receive updates and notifications that keep users informed and involved with the latest developments and features of the project.

In my opinion, a lot of the end users of this project may not even know what LibreChat is so this wouldn’t be the worst thing. However, the admins may have their instances setup in a closed environment (work, schools) so having this would be something to remove. Discord serves well for this with the engaged community

these are somewhat relevant articles on why I wouldn’t dedicate time to this:
https://javascript.plainenglish.io/i-replaced-my-native-ios-app-with-a-cross-platform-web-app-and-no-one-noticed-1653901ce244

https://andrewzuo.com/native-apps-are-dead-get-over-it-9944e5253c93

[pzcn]

Got it, thanks for the reply

[pzcn]

Got it, thanks for the reply