Making an Anvil app into a Progressive Web App

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Hi there! To turn a web app into a Progressive Web App (PWA), it is necessary to have a manifest.webmanifest file served from the top-level directory of the website, as described here https://web.dev/add-manifest/. Does anyone have any experience with doing this in Anvil or could tell me how it might be done? Thanks in advance! Simon