Progressive Web Application Development by Example: Develop fast,reliable,and engaging user experiences for the web
by: Chris Love
ISBN-10: 1787125424
ISBN-13: 9781787125421
Released: 2018-07-24
Pages: 354
Book Description
Are you a developer that wants to create truly cross-platform user experiences with a minimal footprint,free of store restrictions and features customers want? Then you need to get to grips with Progressive Web Applications (PWAs),a perfect amalgamation of web and mobile applications with a blazing-fast response time.
Progressive Web Application Development by Example helps you explore concepts of the PWA development by enabling you to develop three projects,starting with a 2048 game. In this game,you will review parts of a web manifest file and understand how a browser uses properties to define the home screen experience. You will then move on to learning how to develop and use a podcast client and be introduced to service workers. The application will demonstrate how service workers are registered and updated. In addition to this,you will review a caching API so that you have a firm understanding of how to use the cache within a service worker,and you’ll discover core caching strategies and how to code them within a service worker.
Finally,you will study how to build a tickets application,wherein you’ll apply advanced service worker techniques,such as cache invalidation. Also,you’ll learn about tools you can use to validate your applications and scaffold them for quality and consistency. By the end of the book,you will have walked through browser developer tools,node modules,and online tools for creating high-quality PWAs.
Contents
1: INTRODUCTION TO PROGRESSIVE WEB APPS
2: CREATING A HOME SCREEN EXPERIENCE WITH A WEB MANIFEST
3: MAKING YOUR WEBSITE SECURE
4: SERVICE WORKERS – NOTIFICATION,SYNCHRONIZATION,AND OUR PODCAST APP
5: THE SERVICE WORKER LIFE CYCLE
6: MASTERING THE CACHE API – MANAGING WEB ASSETS IN A PODCAST APPLICATION
7: SERVICE WORKER CACHING PATTERNS
8: APPLYING ADVANCED SERVICE WORKER CACHE STRATEGIES
9: OPTIMIZING FOR PERFORMANCE
10: SERVICE WORKER TOOLS
What You Will Learn
Explore the core principles of PWAs
Study the three main technical requirements of PWAs
Discover enhancing requirements to make PWAs transcend native apps and traditional websites
Create and install PWAs on common websites with a given HTTPS as the core requirement
Get acquainted with the service worker life cycle
Define service worker caching patterns
Apply caching strategies to three different website scenarios
Implement best practices for web performance
Authors
Chris Love
Chris Love is a frontend developer with 25 years of professional experience. He has won the Microsoft MVP award for 12 years and has authored multiple books. He has helped over 1,000 businesses of all sizes and from various industries.
Chris regularly speaks at user groups,code camps,and developer conferences,and also writes articles and videos to help fellow developers.
When he’s not working on frontend development,you can find him spending time with his step-kids,doing karate,and taking part in Spartan races.
