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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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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

The PWA ticket service worker architecture

The 2048 and Podstr apps have relied on a single script. The PWA ticket app uses more complex techniques like importing libraries to drive the logic.

Service workers can load external scripts using the importScripts method. This function is available in the global scope and accepts an array of URLs. These are additional scripts and work much like the node.js require system:

self.importScripts("js/libs/localforage.min.js", 
    "js/app/libs/api.js",  
    "sw/response-mgr.js",  
    "sw/push-mgr.js", 
    "sw/invalidation-mgr.js",  
    "sw/date-mgr.js" 
); 

The first two scripts are also used in the client code. localForage is an IndexedDB wrapper and the API script manages access to the API and authentication token. The Mustache library file is imported in the ResponseManager...

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