Getting started with Isolated Web Apps

Isolated Web Apps (IWAs) provide a high-trust security model for web applications. This high-trust security model opens up the ability to use APIs that can’t otherwise be delivered to the drive-by web, like Direct Sockets and Controlled Frame. To opt-in to this high-trust security model, your web app needs to be packaged, isolated, and standalone.

Using the Isolated Web App Kitchen Sink⁠ as a sample project, you’ll learn how to get a local IWA development environment set up, how to build and sign your IWA, and how to test your IWA.

If you don’t already have Node.js⁠ installed, we recommend installing it with a version manager to ensure that the correct version of Node for this project is installed and ease any potential installation issues that may arise. nvm⁠ and Volta⁠ are both good options. The project also makes use of pnpm⁠ as a version manager, but you can opt to use npm package manager that comes bundled with Node if you’d like instead.