# Deploying app as PWA

## What is a Progressive Web App?

Put simply, a Progressive Web App (PWA) is a web app that uses modern web capabilities to deliver an app-like experience to users. These apps are deployed to traditional web servers, are accessible through URLs, and can be indexed by search engines.

A Progressive Web App is, for all practical purposes, just another term for a website that has been optimized for mobile performance and that utilizes newly available Web APIs to deliver features that are similar to a traditional native app, such as push notifications and offline storage.

## Capacitor and Progressive Web Apps

Capacitor has first-class support for Progressive Web Apps *and* native apps. That means that Capacitor's plugin bridge supports running in either a native context or in the web, with many core plugins available *in both contexts* with the exact same API and calling conventions.

This means you'll use `@capacitor/core` as a dependency for both your native app *and* your Progressive Web App, and Capacitor will seamlessly call web code when required and native code when available.

Additionally, Capacitor offers a number of utilities for querying the current platform to provide customized experiences when running natively or on the web.

{% hint style="info" %}
We haven't designed this UI for PWA yet. The work is in progress. However, you can always modify the UI as you want and deploy the app as a PWA
{% endhint %}

For more details on how to convert this app to PWA, check the [official documentation](https://capacitor.ionicframework.com/docs/basics/progressive-web-app) on Ionic framework website. 


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