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Progressive Web Application Development by Example

You're reading from   Progressive Web Application Development by Example Develop fast, reliable, and engaging user experiences for the web

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787125421
Length 354 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Chris Love Chris Love
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Preface 1. Introduction to Progressive Web Apps FREE CHAPTER 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 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Making complex service workers with workbox

Workbox (https://developers.google.com/web/tools/workbox/) is another open source project to help you create service workers. It is maintained by the Chrome team, but like the other projects, I have reviewed those open to public contributions.

The goal of Workbox is to help scaffold complete service workers or add complex components to existing service workers. Workbox allows you to build on a solid foundation, so you can configure to meet your specific needs. It gives you control over how you build your service worker. You can manually add features to existing service workers and tooling to scaffold a service worker from scratch.

A properly configured service worker uses a combination of appropriate caching strategies. The key part of that sentence is a properly configured service worker, which is, as you should know by now, not simple...

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