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Progressive Web Apps with React

You're reading from   Progressive Web Apps with React Create lightning fast web apps with native power using React and Firebase

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788297554
Length 302 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Scott Domes Scott Domes
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Preface 1. Creating Our App Structure FREE CHAPTER 2. Getting Started with Webpack 3. Our App's Login Page 4. Easy Backend Setup With Firebase 5. Routing with React 6. Completing Our App 7. Adding a Service Worker 8. Using a Service Worker to Send Push Notifications 9. Making Our App Installable with a Manifest 10. The App Shell 11. Chunking JavaScript to Optimize Performance with Webpack 12. Ready to Cache 13. Auditing Our App 14. Conclusion and Next Steps

Testing our cache

Run your app locally quickly with yarn start to check for any obvious errors (typos and such), and if all looks good, fire up yarn deploy.

Open your live application and the Chrome DevTools. Turn off Update on reload under Application | Service Workers, refresh once, and then go to the Network tab. You should see something like the following:

If this doesn't work, try Unregistering any service workers under Application | Service Workers, and then reload twice.

The key point is (from service worker) beside our JavaScript files. Our static assets are being served up by our service worker cache, and if you scroll to the top of the network tab, you'll see this:

The document itself is being served from the service worker, which means we can run our app under any network condition, even offline; let's try it. Click on the Offline checkbox at the top...

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