ermitaval / gwt-pwa-template

A PWA application template using GWT and Polymer

A Template for GWT PWAs

It's a standard maven project able to compile and run a GWT Application and produce the service worker and manifest for PWAs.

Build

Run in your terminal:

  $ mvn clean package

Then you have the .war ready for deploy in the target folder.

Develop

1. Import the project in your favourite Java IDE.
2. Run mvn gwt:devmode in a terminal or from your IDE.
3. Navigate to http://localhost:8888/
4. Now you can modify your java code and reload.

Configuring precache resources

Modify the file sw-precache-config.js and run mvn clean package.

You can read all the options available reading the sw-precache documentation.

Adding a new polymer dependency

1. Add gwt-api-generator dependency to npm

    $ npm install --save 'vaadin/gwt-api-generator#master'
   

2. Add your polymer element dependency to bower

    $ bower install --save 'manolo/vaadin-pouchdb#master'
   

3. Uncomment the gwt-api-generator task in pom.xml

   <plugin>
    <artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId>
    ...
    <executions>
      ...
      <execution>
        <id>gwt-api-generator</id>
        ...
        <goals>
          <goal>run</goal>
     ...