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Learning Progressive Web Apps, 1st edition

Published by Addison-Wesley Professional (March 19, 2020) © 2020

  • John M. Wargo

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Software developers have two options for the apps they build: native apps targeting a specific device or web apps that run on any device. Building native apps is challenging, especially when your app targets multiple system types—i.e., desktop computers, smartphones, televisions—because user experience varies dramatically across devices.
Service Workers—a relatively new technology—make it easier for web apps to bridge the gap between native and web capabilities. In Learning Progressive Web Apps, author John M. Wargo demonstrates how to use Service Workers to enhance the capabilities of a web app to create Progressive Web Apps (PWA). He focuses on the technologies that enable PWAs and how to use those technologies to enhance your web apps to deliver a more native-like experience.
  • Build web apps a user can easily install on their local system and that work offline or on low-quality networks
  • Utilise caching strategies that give you control over which app resources are cached and when
  • Deliver background processing in a web application
  • Implement push notifications that enable an app to easily engage with users or trigger action from a remote server
  • Use JavaScript and modern Web APIs to build apps that are responsive, secure, self-updating, searchable, shareable, and maintainable
  • Start with a simple app and progressively enhance it with powerful modern capabilities
  • Discover how Service Workers can improve user experience and performance simply and painlessly
  • Full source code available on GitHub, with additional insights and support at pwalearn.com

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  • Chapter 1: Introducing Progressive Web Apps
  • Chapter 2: Web App Manifest Files
  • Chapter 3: Service Workers
  • Chapter 4: Resource Caching
  • Chapter 5: Going the Rest of the Way Offline with Background Sync
  • Chapter 6: Push Notifications
  • Chapter 7: Passing Data Between Service Workers and Web Applications
  • Chapter 8: Assessment, Automation, and Deployment
  • Chapter 9: Automating Service Workers with Google Workbox
John M. Wargo is a product manager, software developer, writer, presenter, father, husband, and geek. He spent more than 30 years working as a professional software developer, first as a hobbyist, then in enterprise software, and finally, for the last 15 years, in mobile development. He is the author of six books on mobile development and was a long-time contributor to the open-source Apache Cordova project. By day, he’s a principal program manager on the App + Cloud Experiences team at Microsoft. His website is johnwargo.com.

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