Menarguez-IA · PWA Starter

📚 Table of Contents

1. 🔎 Overview
2. 👨‍💻 Role
3. ❓ Problem
4. 🎯 Goal
5. ✨ Solution
6. 🧪 User Testing
7. ⚙️ Challenges and Learnings
8. ✅ Final Thoughts

🔎 Overview

Menarguez-IA · PWA Starter is a Progressive Web App (PWA) template created for Menarguez-IA Solutions.
It is a lightweight HTML-based starter configured to be deployed easily on Vercel and installed as a small web app on any device.

The main idea is to have a small, reusable base that I can quickly adapt for IA tools, internal dashboards and landing pages.

👨‍💻 Role

I was responsible for the entire lifecycle of the project:

• 🧱 Designing the PWA structure.
• ⚙️ Configuring the service worker and the web app manifest.
• 🚀 Preparing the deployment on Vercel.
• 📝 Documenting the template so it can be reused in future projects.

❓ Problem

Every time I wanted to publish a small tool or prototype, I had to:

• Start from scratch with HTML / assets.
• Reconfigure basic PWA pieces (manifest, service worker).
• Rebuild the deployment workflow.

This slowed down experimentation and made it harder to ship quick IA demos or internal utilities for Menarguez-IA.

🎯 Goal

Create a starter template that:

• Uses only HTML + a minimal Service Worker.
• Can be deployed to Vercel in just a few clicks.
• Works as the foundation for future Menarguez-IA micro-apps and dashboards.
• Is simple enough to customize in minutes.

✨ Solution

The final solution is a small but flexible PWA skeleton:

• 📄 Static HTML layout ready to be extended with JavaScript or any front-end framework.
• 🧩 A configured service-worker.js to handle basic caching and offline support.
• ☁️ A simple Vercel setup that uses the public folder as the output directory.
• 🧱 A clean file structure so new pages or scripts can be added without breaking the setup.

This allows me to focus on the logic and UI of each new idea instead of rebuilding the base every time.

🧪 User Testing

I tested the starter in different scenarios:

• 📱 Installation as a PWA on desktop and mobile.
• 🌐 Behaviour with slow or unstable connections.
• 🔁 Rapid iterations using Vercel preview deployments.

These tests helped validate that:

• The PWA installs correctly on supported devices.
• Updates are delivered without confusing the user.
• The template behaves consistently across environments.

⚙️ Challenges and Learnings

• 📦 Caching rules: tuning the service worker so assets are cached, but updates still arrive when needed.
• 🗂️ Understanding how Vercel serves static assets from the public directory.
• 🧰 Keeping the starter minimal but flexible enough to support future features (extra pages, scripts, or frameworks on top).

✅ Final Thoughts

This PWA starter is now my go-to base project for small IA experiments and internal tools at Menarguez-IA Solutions.

It lets me:

• 🚀 Launch prototypes quickly.
• 🧪 Test ideas without fighting with configuration.
• 🔁 Reuse the same structure for multiple apps, keeping deployment and PWA setup already solved.