What is a web app?
So, the first question you might have is what is a web application or a web app? A web app is basically some sort of software or program that is run through an active network connection instead of being accessed locally through the operating system of the device. You usually need to access a web application through a web browser, and it's programmed using a client-server (user) modeled structure that provides services through a remote server that is hosted externally.
A great example of a web application includes browser-based email services, such as Gmail or Yahoo mail, as well as things such as your online banking services. This may sound like it is essentially just a dynamic web page, and in all honesty, they are strikingly similar. The easiest way to differentiate the two is that the site would have functionality more closely related to that of a software application or a mobile app. Now that we know what a web app is and what it can do, let's start...