[Update: Now in Canary] Google is improving Progressive Web Apps on Chrome OS

• Update 1: 2018/04/09 2:19pm PDT
  As François Beaufort from Google points out, this is now available in Chrome OS Canary by default (no flags required). Just open a PWA, like Twitter Lite or

Near the end of last year, Google told developers that it was working to phase out apps in the Chrome Web Store, in favor of platform-independent Progressive Web Apps. While PWAs already fully work in Chrome and Chrome OS, Google has been trying to make them look and feel more like desktop programs. Kenneth Christiansen (a contributor to Chromium) has shared some screenshots of how the work is progressing, and it looks fantastic.

[Update: Now in Canary] Google is improving Progressive Web Apps on Chrome OS was written by the awesome team at Android Police.