Are Progressive Web Apps the Future of Web Development?

For those who haven’t heard of them, progressive web apps aim to bridge the gap between the mobile web and native apps by providing things like the ability to install, provide offline support, run background processes and send push notifications. What are the non-technical doubts about using it? How does it work? Is it worth to dig into PWA now? Johannes Weber shows PWA in action and is intended to answer all these questions.