Why there isn't have option to install experimental PWA on desktop?

[Lee533 (· Lee)]

Sorry, my English is very poor, so I did’t express things that I want to explain clearly in the title.

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I see this Topic said, if you turn on Desktop PWAs feature, you can:

Experimental Desktop PWA works with Discourse!

visit your Discourse site and click “Install to desktop…”

So I turned it on,

But when I visit Discourse site, there isn’t have “Install to desktop” option.

The strange thing is when I visit another website which support PWA, there has “Install to desktop”, and I can install it successfully.

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And another the strange thing is, I can’t install the later in my Android device, but the former can.

[Falco]

You need extra steps in Discourse to install it as a PWA currently:

Implement Badging API

Here’s how to test this in Windows on Chrome (latest version 73, just released today): go to the three dots menu at the upper right in Chrome select More Tools → Create Shortcut tick the “Open as window” checkbox select Create Like so [image] I’ll try it out … it works! [image]

We will soon make it available where you were looking for it, but that will take some time as we want to cleanup the service worker path first.