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I think one big problem with web apps is that browser storage is generally seen as ephemeral, causing data that the user would want to keep to be deleted togeth

I think one big problem with web apps is that browser storage is generally seen as ephemeral, causing data that the user would want to keep to be deleted together with relatively meaningless, truly ephemeral data. For example, I have my browser set to delete cookies on exit. Others use "delete recent history". I don't know if these things also wipe PWA data, but if they do, that can be a nasty surprise.

SoftTalker 2y ago
In Firefox, cookies and "site data" have separately delete settings but definitely can be done. My browser is configured to delete everything (cookies, data, history) when I close it.
thepra 2y ago
as a pwa developer, that's a continuous concern, lately I was thinking of notifying the users after certain actions to go and save locally the data that's withing the web app(it's all JSON btw) and restore it later when in need, but that's too cumbersome as a solution for many... ¯ \ _ ( ツ ) _ / ¯
datavirtue 2y ago
The data should pass through to the OS environment app data folder the way you store data in any other app.