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When creating a web app manifest for Chrome, you can specify your display as fullscreen, standalone, minimal-ui or browser
What are the differences between fullscreen and standalone and when should I use which? They seem very similar to me.
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The most common option for a Progressive Web App, standalone mode displays your PWA in an OS-standard window without any browser navigation UI. The window may also include a browser-controlled menu where the user can: Copy the current URL.
A web application manifest, as defined in the Web Application Manifest specification, provides information about a web application in a JSON text file, necessary for the web app to be downloaded and be presented to the user similarly to a native app (e.g., be installed on the homescreen of a device, providing users ...
The web app manifest is a JSON file that tells the browser about your Progressive Web App and how it should behave when installed on the user's desktop or mobile device.
The start_url member is a string that represents the start URL of the web application — the preferred URL that should be loaded when the user launches the web application (e.g., when the user taps on the web application's icon from a device's application menu or homescreen).
When you use standalone it looks like native app. When you use fullscreen there is no status bar etc. Probably you want to use standalone, because fullscreen has very specific use-case (e.g. gaming).
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