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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 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

Cache invalidation strategies

Just like there are caching strategies, there are cache invalidation strategies you can employ to keep your cache from getting out of control. The PWA tickets application uses a maximum items strategy to control how many responses are cached, but there are other strategies you can use.

Unique hash names and long time-to-live values

A popular technique to make updating assets easier with long time to live values is using hash values in the file name. This is because a hash which is generated based on the file's contents means that the algorithm generates a relatively unique value.

The unique name creates a new URL for the asset and assigns a new Cache-Control value to the asset. This works...

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