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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

The PWA ticket JavaScript architecture

Similar to the Podstr application, the PWA ticket app utilizes a combination of third-party libraries and application-specific JavaScript.

The following screenshot shows how the JavaScript files are organized in the source code:

The custom service worker logic or workflow utilizes different libraries to render content on the client. The two third-party libraries are localForage for IndexedDB interactions and Mustache to render markup.

localForage (https://localforage.github.io/localForage/) is another IndexedDB wrapper. It provides a simple interface that mimics localStorage. The main difference is that localForage supports promises, making it asynchronous.

There are three polyfils, and these are Object.assign, Promise, and Fetch.

Each page uses a few application-specific libraries: api and push-mgr, and common application modules. Each...

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