Revisit PWA support about janusweb HOT 4 CLOSED

Another thing to revisit is the service worker. We can use this to do things like make each browser tab aware of what other tabs are open, and do notifications cross-tab, and for offline users

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Looks like I misunderstood the announcement, and there's currently no way to install directly from the website on Quest like you can from Desktop and Mobile - Facebook seems to be planning to gate this behind AppLab and the App Store. It's currently possible to build an APK out of a PWA and sideload it though - we can probably set up a build step to do this, and can evaluate whether it makes sense to put it on AppLab at such time as they make that an option

https://timmykokke.com/blog/2021-11-05-webxr-pwa-apk/

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Ugh. No Linux build tools, proprietary manifest extensions. These are not Progressive Web Apps, they're Oculus Web Apps. 😠

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I've successfully built and installed a PWA for running JanusWeb on the Oculus Quest. Still miffed that I have to do this from windows or OSX - I made some attempts to run it via WINE, but ran into some issues which I couldn't resolve. At least I know the project is set up properly for this now, and maybe one day Facebook will release Linux tools so more projects can integrate this into their standard build procedure.

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