Description
Summary
Progressive Web Apps teaches you PWA design and the skills you wish to have to build fast, reliable websites by taking you step by step through real world examples in this practical tutorial. Foreword by Addy Osmani, Google.
Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.
About the Technology
Offline websites that work. Near-instant load times. Smooth transitions between high/low/no bandwidth. Fantasy, right? Not with progressive web applications. PWAs use modern browser features like push notifications, smart caching, and Service Workers to manage data, minimize server usage, and allow for unstable connections, giving you better keep watch over and happier customers. Better still, all you wish to have to build PWAs are JavaScript, HTML, and the easy-to-master techniques You’ll be able to find in this book.
About the Book
Progressive Web Apps teaches you PWA design and the skills you wish to have to build fast, reliable websites. There are many ways you’ll use PWA techniques, and this practical tutorial presents interesting, standalone examples so you’ll jump to the parts that interest you most. You’ll be able to discover how Web Service Workers vastly support site loading, how to effectively use push notifications, and how to create sites with a no-compromise offline mode.
What’s Inside
- Improved caching with Service Workers
- Using manifest files and HTML markup
- Push notifications
- Offline-first web designs
- Techniques for data synchronization
About the Reader
Written for readers with experience developing websites the use of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
About the Author
Dean Alan Hume is a coder, creator, and Google Developer Expert. He’s passionate about web performance and user experience.
Table of Contents
- Understanding Progressive Web Apps
- First steps to building a Progressive Web App
- Caching
- Intercepting network requests
- Look and feel
- Push notifications
- Offline browsing
- Building more resilient applications
- Keeping your data synchronized
- Streaming data
- Progressive Web App troubleshooting
- The future is taking a look good