Can existing SmartGWT based website be converted as PWA(Progressive Web App) app?

[sidharth1917]

Hi Isomorphic

1. Can existing SmartGWT based website be converted as PWA(Progressive Web App) app? if yes, can you share details (including libraries, etc)
2. Do you have any use case or customers who are using SmartGWT based PWA app?

Regards

[Isomorphic]

While you can use the canvas.htmlElement feature to replace plain HTML incrementally, this generally doesn't make sense to do. SmartGWT is for enterprise business applications, not for a website that needs a small amount of interactivity like a menu.

If you have a website that is mostly static content, but has some minor interactivity requirements (a menu, perhaps a simple form to submit), but somewhere in that website you can then arrive at a full-screen application, the best strategy is to use some ultra-light framework (like JQuery) for the menus and form and then switch to SmartGWT for the full-screen application.

This is how SmartClient.com is set up - JQuery menus, SmartGWT for the Showcase and certain other pieces.