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Progressive Web Application Development by Example

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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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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introduction to Progressive Web Apps 2. Creating a Home Screen Experience with a Web Manifest FREE CHAPTER 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

Using the JSON server for an API

When you build modern applications, the frontend almost always communicates with an API to interact with a date source. The API is the gateway to the backend application and can be consumed by any client application, such as a Progressive Web App.

Developing against an API can be rather tricky when you don't want to develop the entire API first. In the podcast application, we simply loaded a pre-rendered JSON to simulate an API. The podcast application only made a GET request and did not do any post requests or attempts to update the underlying data model.

The PWA ticket application does make post requests and attempts to update the underlying data model, but rather than building out an entire infrastructure for this, I found a nice solution: json-server (https://github.com/typicode/json-server). This is a node module that works much like...

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