@joaobelotwt/pwa-install v0.0.5

\<pwa-install>

Installation dialog for Progressive web application. Provides more convenience user experience and fix lack of native dialogs in some browsers. 13.5kB brotli compressed bundle. Translation/localization is supported.

Install

npm i @joaobelotwt/pwa-install

Alternatively, you can use unpkg.

Import

import '@joaobelotwt/pwa-install';

Use

<pwa-install></pwa-install>

Supported params

<pwa-install
  manual-apple="true"
  manual-chrome="true"
  disable-chrome="true"

  install-description="Custom call to install text"
  disable-install-description="true"

  manifest-url="/manifest.json"
  name="PWA"
  description="Progressive web application"         
  icon="/icon.png">
</pwa-install>
<!-- 
  manual-apple/chrome params means you want to show the Dialog manually by showDialog().
  disable-chrome param is for completely disabling custom logic and interception for Chominum browsers (will work built-in browser logic).
--->

Make a good manifest file and don't use name/descr/icon params. Boolean attributes needs to be removed to act like "false"

Supported events

• pwa-install-success-event
• pwa-install-fail-event
• pwa-install-available-event
• pwa-user-choice-result-event

<script type="text/javascript">
  var pwaInstall = document.getElementsByTagName('pwa-install')[0];

  pwaInstall.addEventListener('pwa-install-success-event', (event) => {console.log(event.detail.message)});
</script>

⚠️ success/fail/choice events is Chromium only, iOS don't have them.

Supported properties (readonly)

• userChoiceResult: string;
• isDialogHidden: boolean
• isInstallAvailable: boolean
• isAppleMobilePlatform: boolean
• isUnderStandaloneMode: boolean
• isRelatedAppsInstalled: boolean

<script type="text/javascript">
  var pwaInstall = document.getElementsByTagName('pwa-install')[0];

  console.log(pwaInstall.isUnderStandaloneMode);
</script>

Supported methods

• install
• hideDialog
• showDialog
• getInstalledRelatedApps: async

<script type="text/javascript">
  var pwaInstall = document.getElementsByTagName('pwa-install')[0];

  pwaInstall.install();
</script>

getInstalledRelatedApps is Chromium only, always empty on iOS.

Supported localization

At this time EN, PT, RU, TR, DE, ES and NL languages available. Language should change automatically based on browser settings. Please create the pull-request if you want to help with translation to your language. It's an easy process.

• Define proper locale code for your language.
• Find lit-localize.json config file and add new lang code to targetLocales.
• Execute npm run localize to generate XLF file for new language.
• Find new file in i18n folder.
• Do translation inside <target> tags below <source> tag of each string.
• Execute npm run localize-build to generate new locale files.-
• Find /src/localization/index.ts and import new locale like the rest of the languages.
• Execute npm run build to update bundle and prepare changes for pull request.

ROADMAP

• style customization