Web App Manifest


From the MDN docs:

The web app manifest provides information about a web application in a JSON text file; this is necessary for the web app to be downloaded and presented to the user, similar to a native app (e.g., be installed on the home screen of a device to provide users with quicker access and a richer experience).


Register the web manifest

Typically, the manifest file is stored at the root of our web application. It can be named manifest.json or anythingYouWant.webmanifest (as long as it has .webmanifest at the end) and serve it with the media type application/manifest+json.

To associate a manifest to a web application, we use the <link> tag in the <head> section of an HTML document (usually index.html):

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