Installing and uninstalling web apps

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A guide to how installation of PWAs works, including the ways a web site can be notified when it's being installed in order to prompt the user with a customized prompt rather than the default one in the browser.

This information would come from the specification, sections 1.2 through 2.4, as well as 2.6 through the end of section 3.

Topics

• Sharing a manifest from a site using <link>
• Installable and non-installable web apps
• Signaling installability
• WebApp names
• The actual install process (install prompts - automatic and manual, how to present the install prompt, beforeinstallprompt events, appinstalled->Window event etc.)
• Uninstalling a web app